{"id":3226,"date":"2019-01-31T19:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2019-01-31T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:10:44","slug":"truck-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/01\/31\/truck-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large sheet of paper <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masking tape<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black tempera paint <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A shallow plastic container for the paint <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few paper towels, folded to fit in the paint container<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toy cars or trucks with textured tires<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Use the masking tape to secure the paper to the table.\u00a0 Butcher paper, newsprint, or even gift wrap (the white side of it) are good choices for paper.\u00a0Dampen the folded paper towels and lay them in the plastic container. Pour the black tempera paint on the paper towel and spread it over the paper towels.\u00a0\u201cDrive\u201d one of the trucks across\u00a0 the black paint; then show your child what happens when it\u2019s driven on the paper.\u00a0 Invite your child to choose a truck and try it with you. Have fun! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A large sheet of paper Masking tape Black tempera paint A shallow plastic container for the paint A few paper towels, folded to fit in the paint container Toy cars or trucks with textured tires Instructions:\u00a0\u00a0Use the masking tape to secure the paper to the table.\u00a0 Butcher paper, newsprint, or even gift wrap (the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/01\/31\/truck-tracks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truck Tracks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3227,"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-3226","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\/3226","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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}