{"id":3574,"date":"2019-05-04T03:15:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2019-05-06T03:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:51:46","slug":"rainbow-ice-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/04\/rainbow-ice-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Ice Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloring<br>Six plastic ice cube trays<br>Small pitcher<br>Water<br>Large, shallow plastic tub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions: <\/strong>Fill the pitcher with water, and add a few drops of red food color. Mix well, and pour carefully into the first ice cube tray. Rinse the pitcher, and fill again, adding orange food color. Fill the second tray. Continue in the same manner with the remaining colors. When all trays are full, put them in the freezer for several hours or overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you\u2019re ready to play, dump the ice into the plastic tub, being careful to\u00a0 keep each color \u201cpure\u201d until your child starts exploring. We also included large salad tongs and wide-mouth plastic jars. The Acorn children found this exploration quite engaging. They loved filling up the jars and examining all the colors. When interest wanes, you can always put the remaining ice into Ziploc bags and refreeze it for another time. (I would not recommend wearing mittens, as the color will stain.)<\/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\/05\/Rainbow-ice-play-Sam-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Rainbow-ice-play-Sam-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Rainbow-ice-play-Sam-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple food coloringSix plastic ice cube traysSmall pitcherWaterLarge, shallow plastic tub Directions: Fill the pitcher with water, and add a few drops of red food color. Mix well, and pour carefully into the first ice cube tray. Rinse the pitcher, and fill again, adding orange food color. Fill &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/04\/rainbow-ice-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rainbow Ice Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3575,"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-3574","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\/3574","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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3588,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}