{"id":2493,"date":"2018-07-06T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T01:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2018-07-06T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:10:35","slug":"spray-chalk-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/07\/06\/spray-chalk-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Spray Chalk Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NJE0PO?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000NJE0PO&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=groajewros-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spray bottles<\/a><br \/>\nCorn starch<br \/>\nBaking soda<br \/>\nFood coloring&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005V9W9RM?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B005V9W9RM&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=groajewros-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">washable watercolors<\/a><br \/>\n(For more vibrant colors, use tempera paint rather than food coloring.)<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Directions<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fill the spray bottles 1\/3 of the way with a baking soda and corn starch mixture, using roughly equal amounts of both ingredients.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Add a few drops of&nbsp;<\/span>food coloring<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&nbsp;or&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005V9W9RM?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B005V9W9RM&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=groajewros-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">washable watercolors<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, and then fill the bottles with very warm water, leaving a little space at the top of the bottle.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>Use a butter knife or similar to stir the mixture as best you can, and then place the spray spouts on and&nbsp;<b>shake the bottles really, really well<\/b>. &nbsp;You will want to shake the bottles once more just before play, as some of the corn starch does settle at the bottom of the bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Invite your child to use the spray chalk to paint large murals or spray directly onto the sidewalk. Your child will love making colorful creations with the spray chalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Spray bottles Corn starch Baking soda Food coloring&nbsp;or&nbsp;washable watercolors (For more vibrant colors, use tempera paint rather than food coloring.) Directions Fill the spray bottles 1\/3 of the way with a baking soda and corn starch mixture, using roughly equal amounts of both ingredients.&nbsp;&nbsp;Add a few drops of&nbsp;food coloring&nbsp;or&nbsp;washable watercolors, and then fill the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/07\/06\/spray-chalk-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spray Chalk Painting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2494,"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-2493","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\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}