{"id":2804,"date":"2018-10-05T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2018-10-05T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T01:28:07","slug":"balloon-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/balloon-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n2 \u2013 3 barely inflated balloons, knotted<br \/>\n2 \u2013 3 small bowls for the paint<br \/>\nConstruction paper<br \/>\nTape<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nBalloon painting is great fun, but needs to be closely supervised! J&nbsp; Tape a piece of construction paper to the table.&nbsp; Pour a small amount of paint into the bowls.&nbsp; Your balloons should be inflated with 1 or 2 breaths of air and be tied in a knot.&nbsp; If the balloon is too inflated, it\u2019s hard for a little child to hold!&nbsp; Dip the balloon into one of the bowls of paint.&nbsp; Demonstrate how to bounce the balloon all over the paper.&nbsp; Saying \u201cboun-cy, boun-cy, boun-cy\u201d as you do it, encourages your child to bounce the balloon, rather than smear it on the paper. (And it\u2019s fun to say!)&nbsp; Try it with several colors, or shades of color.&nbsp; The results are always unique!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2 \u2013 3 barely inflated balloons, knotted 2 \u2013 3 small bowls for the paint Construction paper Tape Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Balloon painting is great fun, but needs to be closely supervised! J&nbsp; Tape a piece of construction paper to the table.&nbsp; Pour a small amount of paint into the bowls.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/05\/balloon-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balloon Painting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2805,"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-2804","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\/2804","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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}