{"id":3012,"date":"2018-11-10T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2018-11-10T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:19:25","slug":"halloween-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/10\/halloween-spaghetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Spaghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n1 pound of spaghetti per color you want to make<br \/>\nLarge cooking pot<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Water for cooking the spaghetti<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Colander for draining<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Food colors of your choosing<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Vegetable oil<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Gallon size Ziploc bags<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Halloween spaghetti is an engaging sensory activity that preschoolers love to get their hands into!&nbsp; And it\u2019s easy to make.&nbsp; Basically, fill your pot with water, bring it to a boil, and cook the spaghetti according to the package directions.&nbsp; About two minutes before the end of the cooking time, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil to the spaghetti, along with the food color of your choice.&nbsp; Turn off the heat, and stir the oil and food color into the spaghetti.&nbsp; Orange and black are a good Halloween choice.&nbsp; Once the food color is evenly mixed into the spaghetti, drain the spaghetti in a colander.&nbsp; Run cold water over the spaghetti to set the color.&nbsp; Once drained and cool enough to handle, put the spaghetti into a large Ziploc bag and put it in the refrigerator.&nbsp; Cook another batch of spaghetti in the same manner, adding a different food color.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If the spaghetti gets sticky, pour a little vegetable oil on your child\u2019s hands, rub them together, and that should solve the problem.&nbsp; The spaghetti is not harmful if your little one should decide to eat some.&nbsp; After the spaghetti play is finished, put it back in the Ziploc bag and store it in the fridge again.&nbsp; It generally keeps for 4-5 days before you should throw it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1 pound of spaghetti per color you want to make Large cooking pot Water for cooking the spaghetti Colander for draining Food colors of your choosing Vegetable oil Gallon size Ziploc bags Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Halloween spaghetti is an engaging sensory activity that preschoolers love to get their hands into!&nbsp; And &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/11\/10\/halloween-spaghetti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Halloween Spaghetti&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3013,"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-3012","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\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}