{"id":2119,"date":"2018-03-29T05:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2018-03-30T06:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:12:20","slug":"dying-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/29\/dying-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyeing Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hard-boiled eggs<br \/>\nVinegar<br \/>\nFood coloring<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><br \/>\nMix 1\/2 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon vinegar and 10 to 20 drops food color in a cup to achieve desired colors. Repeat for each color. Dip hard-boiled&nbsp;eggs&nbsp;in&nbsp;dye&nbsp;for about 5 minutes. Use a slotted spoon, wire&nbsp;egg&nbsp;holder or tongs to add and remove&nbsp;eggs&nbsp;from&nbsp;dye.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you mix yellow dye with blue dye? Red dye with blue dye? Yellow dye with red dye? Try using a white crayon to make designs on the&nbsp; hard-boiled egg; then place the egg in the dye.&nbsp; What do you observe?&nbsp; Be creative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy making egg salad with the eggs once your child is ready to let them go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients Hard-boiled eggs Vinegar Food coloring Directions Mix 1\/2 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon vinegar and 10 to 20 drops food color in a cup to achieve desired colors. Repeat for each color. Dip hard-boiled&nbsp;eggs&nbsp;in&nbsp;dye&nbsp;for about 5 minutes. Use a slotted spoon, wire&nbsp;egg&nbsp;holder or tongs to add and remove&nbsp;eggs&nbsp;from&nbsp;dye. What happens when you mix yellow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/29\/dying-eggs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dyeing Eggs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2120,"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-2119","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\/2119","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}