{"id":2246,"date":"2018-04-20T03:15:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2018-04-20T03:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T03:23:43","slug":"rainbow-play-dough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/04\/20\/rainbow-play-dough\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Play Dough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our best play dough recipe:<br \/>\n<strong>Super Smooth Play Dough<br \/>\n<\/strong>2 cups flour<br \/>\n1\/2 cup salt<br \/>\n4 tsp. cream of tarter<br \/>\n2 cups water<br \/>\n2 Tbsp. baby oil<br \/>\nFood coloring (optional)<\/p>\n<p>Combine the dry ingredients in a sauce pan. Add the water and oil (and color, if desired) and mix well. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until the mixture begins to thicken and forms a firm ball. Remove from heat and knead when cool enough. Store in an air-tight container.<\/p>\n<p><b>To make &#8220;Rainbow Play Dough&#8221;<\/b><br \/>\nDivide non-colored play dough into 7 small containers. &nbsp;Add a different food coloring or paste (for brilliant colors). &nbsp;Mix coloring into dough. &nbsp;Invite you child to explore with the various colors &#8211; roll, pound, squish, and make &#8220;snakes&#8221;. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Working with play dough strengthens the finger muscles, which makes controlling a pencil or pen much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our best play dough recipe: Super Smooth Play Dough 2 cups flour 1\/2 cup salt 4 tsp. cream of tarter 2 cups water 2 Tbsp. baby oil Food coloring (optional) Combine the dry ingredients in a sauce pan. Add the water and oil (and color, if desired) and mix well. Cook over medium heat, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/04\/20\/rainbow-play-dough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rainbow Play Dough&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2247,"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-2246","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\/2246","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=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}