{"id":2846,"date":"2018-10-12T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2018-10-12T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:41:31","slug":"making-marks-with-watercolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/12\/making-marks-with-watercolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Marks with Watercolors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nOne cake of watercolor paint<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2871 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Making-Marks-With-Watercolor-Weston-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Making-Marks-With-Watercolor-Weston-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Making-Marks-With-Watercolor-Weston-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nConstruction paper<br \/>\nCup of water<br \/>\nThin brush<br \/>\nMasking Tap<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nMaking marks on paper with a thin watercolor brush is a wonderful way to encourage your preschooler to practice those important fine motor skills!&nbsp; It\u2019s also a process that requires your child to follow a simple sequence of steps to bring about the desired outcome.&nbsp; Your child will also become aware of different kinds of lines (straight, curvy, zigzag, long\/short lines, vertical\/horizontal lines) and shapes.&nbsp; Use the masking tape to secure the paper to the table in front of your child.&nbsp; Provide your child with a \u00bd-filled cup of water.&nbsp; Show him how to dip his brush into the water; then swirl the wet brush on the watercolor cake to pick up the color.&nbsp; We start out by using only one color of paint initially, to simplify the process.&nbsp; After he has some paint on his brush, encourage him to \u201csweep\u201d the brush across the paper.&nbsp; Dip the brush in the water again, swirl it on the watercolor cake, and mark the paper again.&nbsp; When your child is finished, show him how to rinse the brush in clean water so he\u2019s ready the next time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One cake of watercolor paint Construction paper Cup of water Thin brush Masking Tap Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Making marks on paper with a thin watercolor brush is a wonderful way to encourage your preschooler to practice those important fine motor skills!&nbsp; It\u2019s also a process that requires your child to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/12\/making-marks-with-watercolor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Marks with Watercolors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2847,"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-2846","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\/2846","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=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}