{"id":2944,"date":"2018-10-29T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2018-10-29T15:13:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:13:57","slug":"red-and-blue-color-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/29\/red-and-blue-color-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Red and Blue Color Mixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nRed tempera paint<br \/>\nBlue tempera paint<br \/>\nQ-tips<br \/>\nPiece of white paper, taped to table<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2947 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Red-and-blue-color-mix-Jaxon-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Red-and-blue-color-mix-Jaxon-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/10\/Red-and-blue-color-mix-Jaxon-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nPlace a small squirt of red tempera paint (about the size of a nickel) on your toddler\u2019s paper.&nbsp; Squirt a similar amount of blue paint next to the red.&nbsp; Give your child a Q-tip, and encourage him to&nbsp; mix the two colors together.&nbsp; As he does so, encourage him to make marks on his paper with the Q-tip.&nbsp; What color are the marks?&nbsp; Ask him if he can create a new color by mixing red and blue together.&nbsp; What is he seeing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Red tempera paint Blue tempera paint Q-tips Piece of white paper, taped to table Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Place a small squirt of red tempera paint (about the size of a nickel) on your toddler\u2019s paper.&nbsp; Squirt a similar amount of blue paint next to the red.&nbsp; Give your child a Q-tip, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/10\/29\/red-and-blue-color-mix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red and Blue Color Mixing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2945,"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-2944","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\/2944","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=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}