{"id":3145,"date":"2018-12-21T06:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:30:15","slug":"christmas-painting-with-pine-boughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/12\/21\/christmas-painting-with-pine-boughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Painting with Pine Boughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nWhite construction paper; butcher paper works well, too!<br \/>\n2 or 3 colors of tempera paint<br \/>\nFreshly-cut pine boughs to paint with<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nPainting with pine boughs is a unique, prickly-tickly experience!&nbsp; You\u2019ll want to take your little one with you to help select the&nbsp; pine boughs. Be sure to take time to smell them and to feel the \u201cpointiness!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This can really be done on any color paper, with your choice of colors.&nbsp; I found it most effective to squirt little drops of color all over the paper and sweep the pine boughs through the paint.&nbsp; The effect is a very wispy one, with some mixing of the colors, but the paint won\u2019t be too muddy.&nbsp; If your child really enjoys the process, let him\/her do several paintings.&nbsp; And if you choose to paint on butcher paper, you can use the end result for a unique wrapping paper after it\u2019s dried!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; White construction paper; butcher paper works well, too! 2 or 3 colors of tempera paint Freshly-cut pine boughs to paint with Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Painting with pine boughs is a unique, prickly-tickly experience!&nbsp; You\u2019ll want to take your little one with you to help select the&nbsp; pine boughs. Be sure to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/12\/21\/christmas-painting-with-pine-boughs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Painting with Pine Boughs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3146,"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-3145","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\/3145","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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}