{"id":2321,"date":"2018-05-04T14:43:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:41:31","slug":"shaving-cream-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/05\/04\/shaving-cream-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaving-Cream Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><br \/>\nShaving cream<br \/>\nTempera paints<br \/>\nStraws<br \/>\nGlitter (optional)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<br \/>\n<\/strong>Cover the bottom of the tray or shallow dish with shaving cream. For a more even surface, spread shaving cream with a rubber spatula.&nbsp; Add various colors of tempera paint to the shaving cream. Invite your child to help choose the colors.&nbsp; You can even make simple patterns with the paint.&nbsp; Encourage your child to use her fingers to swirl and mix the paints. Observe what happens to the colors. If you child doesn&#8217;t care to place her hands in the cream, invite her to explore color mixing by using straws, silverware, twigs, etc. Try adding a sprinkle of glitter for a sparkly effect.<\/p>\n<p>Sensory shaving-cream painting was so much fun! The children created interesting patterns that were intriguing and kept them engaged.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the courageous, you might try having your child paint with their feet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Shaving cream Tempera paints Straws Glitter (optional)&nbsp; Directions Cover the bottom of the tray or shallow dish with shaving cream. For a more even surface, spread shaving cream with a rubber spatula.&nbsp; Add various colors of tempera paint to the shaving cream. Invite your child to help choose the colors.&nbsp; You can even make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/05\/04\/shaving-cream-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shaving-Cream Painting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2322,"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-2321","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\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}