{"id":3615,"date":"2019-05-10T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2019-05-10T18:11:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:11:27","slug":"revealing-the-secret-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/10\/revealing-the-secret-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing the Secret Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Strip of white paper, approx. 6\u201d x 18\u201d<br>White crayon<br>Water color paint set with a paintbrush<br>Water in a cup<br>Tape<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This is an activity that will require mom or dad to do part and your little one to do part. First, tape the paper to your work surface. Next, mom or dad\u00a0 should draw a simple pattern on the paper with the white crayon. For example, a circle, a triangle, a circle, a triangle, etc. Press firmly with the crayon when you\u2019re making the pattern. (If you don\u2019t have a white crayon, you can use the end of a small candle, e.g., a birthday candle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"941\" src=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Revealing-the-secret-pattern-1-1024x941.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Revealing-the-secret-pattern-1-1024x941.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Revealing-the-secret-pattern-1-300x276.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Revealing-the-secret-pattern-1-768x705.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Put a little water in the cup and demonstrate to your child how to dip the brush in the cup of water and then in the water color paint cake. Once he\u2019s made a little liquid watercolor, let him paint all over the paper. The color will cover the paper except where the crayon marks were made! (And if you don\u2019t have a paint set handy, just mix a little food coloring into the water.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Strip of white paper, approx. 6\u201d x 18\u201dWhite crayonWater color paint set with a paintbrushWater in a cupTape Directions:\u00a0\u00a0This is an activity that will require mom or dad to do part and your little one to do part. First, tape the paper to your work surface. Next, mom or dad\u00a0 should draw a simple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/10\/revealing-the-secret-pattern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revealing the Secret Pattern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3616,"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-3615","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\/3615","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=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}