{"id":1440,"date":"2018-11-18T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2018-11-19T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T18:01:34","slug":"painting-fall-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/18\/painting-fall-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Fall Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Tempera paint (orange, red, yellow, brown)<br \/>\nBundle of Q-Tips<br \/>\nLarge piece of construction paper<br \/>\nPaint brush<br \/>\nPaper plate<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Help your child paint a large bare tree with a trunk and bare branches. While the paint is drying, bundle about 10 Q-Tips together using a rubber band. Place a small amount of yellow, orange, and red tempera paint on a paper plate.&nbsp; Once the painted tree has dried, invite your child to use the bundle of Q-Tips and dip them into one of the colors of tempera paint. Press the Q-Tips onto the paper. Choose a different color and continue painting &#8220;leaves&#8221; on the tree and on the ground. This makes a beautiful fall tree apinting. Display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Tempera paint (orange, red, yellow, brown) Bundle of Q-Tips Large piece of construction paper Paint brush Paper plate Directions Help your child paint a large bare tree with a trunk and bare branches. While the paint is drying, bundle about 10 Q-Tips together using a rubber band. Place a small amount of yellow, orange, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/18\/painting-fall-trees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Painting Fall Trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}