{"id":3148,"date":"2018-12-21T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2018-12-21T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:25:22","slug":"mess-free-jingle-bell-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/12\/21\/mess-free-jingle-bell-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mess-Free Jingle Bell Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Materials<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nShallow plastic container with lid<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3149 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/12\/mess-free-jinglebell-painting-Hadley-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/12\/mess-free-jinglebell-painting-Hadley-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/12\/mess-free-jinglebell-painting-Hadley-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nSheet of paper<br \/>\n2 or 3 colors of tempera paint<br \/>\nPlastic spoon<br \/>\n4 or 5 jingle bells<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\nTrim your piece of paper to fit inside the box.&nbsp; Using a spoon, drizzle the paint on the paper, being careful not to make big globs.&nbsp; Before dropping the jingle bells into the box, we shook them, rolled them on the floor, and played with them a little bit.&nbsp; Then I took one and dropped it in the box, asking Baby H. if she could drop one in, too.&nbsp; She did, so I handed her the other bells and she dropped them in as well.&nbsp; We securely closed the box, and I showed H. how to shake it.&nbsp; This was the fun part for her!&nbsp; If you have a box with a transparent lid, it allows your child to see the bells rolling around.&nbsp; But if you don\u2019t, your little one can still hear the bells jingle as they roll around, which is another experience!<\/p>\n<p>When the rolling and shaking is no longer appealing,&nbsp; open the box and remove the bells.&nbsp; What remains is a lovely piece of art created using jingle bells!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Shallow plastic container with lid Sheet of paper 2 or 3 colors of tempera paint Plastic spoon 4 or 5 jingle bells Directions&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Trim your piece of paper to fit inside the box.&nbsp; Using a spoon, drizzle the paint on the paper, being careful not to make big globs.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/12\/21\/mess-free-jingle-bell-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mess-Free Jingle Bell Painting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3150,"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-3148","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\/3148","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=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}