{"id":3385,"date":"2019-03-11T03:52:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T03:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2019-03-11T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:39:40","slug":"striped-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/03\/11\/striped-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Striped Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Old, dry dish sponge<br>12\u201d x 18\u201d construction paper<br>Black marker<br>Two googly eyes<br>Glue dots, Elmer\u2019s glue, or double-sided tape<br>Small puddle of tempera paint in a Styrofoam meat tray<br>Scissors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions: <\/strong>Using the black marker, draw a simple snake shape on the construction paper. Dip the edge of the dry sponge into the paint, hand it to your child, and encourage her to print stripes all along the snake\u2019s body, end to end. Help her to print her stripes across the body, widthwise. Let the painting dry. Use two glue dots to stick the googly eyes to the snake. Finally, cut out the snake. Maybe an older child would like to help with the cutting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Old, dry dish sponge12\u201d x 18\u201d construction paperBlack markerTwo googly eyesGlue dots, Elmer\u2019s glue, or double-sided tapeSmall puddle of tempera paint in a Styrofoam meat trayScissors Directions: Using the black marker, draw a simple snake shape on the construction paper. Dip the edge of the dry sponge into the paint, hand it to your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/03\/11\/striped-snakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Striped Snakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3386,"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-3385","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\/3385","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=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}