{"id":1505,"date":"2017-12-11T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:59:26","slug":"gingerbread-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/12\/11\/gingerbread-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ingredients<br \/>\n<\/b>2 cups flour<br \/>\n1 cup salt<br \/>\n2 Tablesppons cinnamon<br \/>\n1 cup water<br \/>\n1\/16 teaspoon of brown icing food coloing (Wilton&#8217;s Cake Icing)<br \/>\nButtons<br \/>\nGoogley eyes<br \/>\nBeads<br \/>\nRibbon<br \/>\nAcrylic Sealer<br \/>\nGingerbread man cookie cutter<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Measure dry ingredients in bowl. In a separate bowl, add icing coloring and water. Stir. Add liquid to dry ingredients and mix well. Knead until well blended. Shape dough into a ball.&nbsp; Invite your child to either roll out the dough using a rolling pin or press flat with his hands. Additional flour on the work surface will help keep the dough from sticking. Using the cookie cutter, cut out a gingerbread man. Place it on a paper plate and invite your child to decorate it using the buttons, googley eyes, beads, etc. Poke a hole in the top of the head with a pencil or straw. Allow to airdry for a few days. Flip ornament to dry backside. One completely dry, spray with an acrylic sealer to preserve and give a special shine. Tie a ribbon through the top and hang on the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 2 Tablesppons cinnamon 1 cup water 1\/16 teaspoon of brown icing food coloing (Wilton&#8217;s Cake Icing) Buttons Googley eyes Beads Ribbon Acrylic Sealer Gingerbread man cookie cutter Directions Measure dry ingredients in bowl. In a separate bowl, add icing coloring and water. Stir. Add liquid to dry ingredients &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/12\/11\/gingerbread-ornaments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gingerbread Ornaments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506,"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-1505","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\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}