{"id":3621,"date":"2019-05-10T03:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2019-05-10T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:05:27","slug":"stamping-a-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/10\/stamping-a-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamping a Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>Styrofoam meat tray<br>An old sponge<br>Blue tempera paint<br>A few cookie cutters<br>A narrow strip of construction paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Dampen the sponge, and place it on the Styrofoam tray. Pour some paint on the sponge and spread it all over the sponge. (We used an expired gift card to spread the paint around\u2014works great!) Ask your child to choose two of the cookie cutters.\u00a0 Dip the first one into the paint-saturated sponge. Let your child know that he\u2019s going to make the first print on the left side of the paper strip. After he makes a print, invite him to dip the second cookie cutter in the paint and make a print next to the first shape. You can tell him he\u2019s created a sequence of two shapes. Repeat the process, stamping with one shape and then the other all the way to the end of the strip of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I limit the pattern to just one color, as we\u2019re focusing on making a pattern, not on color. When he\u2019s a confident pattern-maker, you can certainly introduce a two-color pattern!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Styrofoam meat trayAn old spongeBlue tempera paintA few cookie cuttersA narrow strip of construction paper Directions:\u00a0\u00a0Dampen the sponge, and place it on the Styrofoam tray. Pour some paint on the sponge and spread it all over the sponge. (We used an expired gift card to spread the paint around\u2014works great!) Ask your child to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/10\/stamping-a-pattern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stamping a Pattern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3622,"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-3621","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\/3621","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=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}