{"id":3649,"date":"2019-05-19T02:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T02:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2019-05-20T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T19:55:49","slug":"making-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/19\/making-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br>Red, white, <em>or<\/em> blue construction paper<br>Red, white, and blue tempera paint in a Styrofoam tray<br>Two or three toilet paper tubes<br>Rubber band<br>Scissors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br>Tape the construction paper to the work surface so it doesn\u2019t shift while painting. Pour the three paint colors into the Styrofoam tray. Stretch the rubber band 1\/3 of the way down the first toilet paper tube. Using scissors, cut from the end of the tube to the rubber band. Make additional cuts around the tube at 1\/8\u201d intervals, cutting to the rubber band each time. Bend the cuts outward, down to the rubber band. Remove the rubber band and follow the same process with the other tube(s).\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holding the uncut end of the toilet paper tube, dip the turned-out cuts into the blue paint. Press it on the paper. It will look like a blue starburst. Then dip the same tube into the white paint. Stamp it on top of the blue starburst. Then dip it a third time in the red paint, stamping on top of the other colors. You will create what looks like patriotic fireworks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"862\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Making-Fireworks-1-862x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Making-Fireworks-1-862x1024.jpeg 862w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Making-Fireworks-1-253x300.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/05\/Making-Fireworks-1-768x912.jpeg 768w\" 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, white, or blue construction paperRed, white, and blue tempera paint in a Styrofoam trayTwo or three toilet paper tubesRubber bandScissors Directions:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tape the construction paper to the work surface so it doesn\u2019t shift while painting. Pour the three paint colors into the Styrofoam tray. Stretch the rubber band 1\/3 of the way down the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/05\/19\/making-fireworks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Fireworks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3650,"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-3649","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\/3649","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=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}