{"id":2988,"date":"2018-11-06T04:58:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2018-11-06T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:18:44","slug":"purple-hyacinths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/06\/purple-hyacinths\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Hyacinths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nWhite construction paper<br \/>\nPurple tempera paint, poured on a damp paper towel in a small tray<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2991 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Purple-Hyacinths-Weston-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Purple-Hyacinths-Weston-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/11\/Purple-Hyacinths-Weston-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nGreen marker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nI purchased some items at a gift shop last year, and the bag my things were put in had some very simple hyacinths printed on it, which inspired me to try this art project with my 2- and 3-year olds!<\/p>\n<p>Draw a simple, fairly straight stem on the construction paper.&nbsp; You can draw a line across the bottom of the page so it looks like your stem is coming out of the ground.&nbsp; Show your preschooler how to press his pointer finger into the paint and then press it on one side of the stem at a slightly upward angle.&nbsp; Have your child continue pressing purple fingerprints up the length of the stem. Then do the same on the other side of your stem. When dry, you\u2019ll have a charming, child-like hyacinth!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; White construction paper Purple tempera paint, poured on a damp paper towel in a small tray Green marker Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I purchased some items at a gift shop last year, and the bag my things were put in had some very simple hyacinths printed on it, which inspired me to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/06\/purple-hyacinths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple Hyacinths&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2989,"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-2988","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\/2988","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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}