{"id":3254,"date":"2019-02-08T03:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2019-02-08T03:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T03:13:42","slug":"blue-and-gold-salad-spinner-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/02\/08\/blue-and-gold-salad-spinner-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue and Gold Salad Spinner Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>A salad spinner<br>8-inch white paper plate<br>Blue tempera paint<br>Gold tempera paint<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Push a paper plate into the bottom of the salad spinner basket.&nbsp; I like to use paper plates because they\u2019re strong enough to handle the paint and the spinning process, and you can get the plate out of the spinner without tearing it.&nbsp; Drop a few drops of blue paint on the plate.&nbsp; Then drop a few drops of gold paint on the plate.&nbsp; Err on the side of not using enough paint.&nbsp; You can always add more! <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close the top securely  and give the handle several good spins.&nbsp; Invite your child to take a turn spinning as much as he wants.&nbsp; When he\u2019s ready, let the spinner stop and check out the results.&nbsp; This is a process we enjoy in Acorn, and the children are always amazed and delighted with the results.&nbsp; So much so, that they often ask to do several plates!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/02\/Blue-and-gold-Salad-Spinner-art-Mason-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/02\/Blue-and-gold-Salad-Spinner-art-Mason-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/02\/Blue-and-gold-Salad-Spinner-art-Mason-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A salad spinner8-inch white paper plateBlue tempera paintGold tempera paint Directions:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Push a paper plate into the bottom of the salad spinner basket.&nbsp; I like to use paper plates because they\u2019re strong enough to handle the paint and the spinning process, and you can get the plate out of the spinner without tearing it.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/02\/08\/blue-and-gold-salad-spinner-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blue and Gold Salad Spinner Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3255,"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-3254","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\/3254","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=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}