{"id":3712,"date":"2019-09-16T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2019-09-17T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:42:28","slug":"wood-block-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/09\/16\/wood-block-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/09\/Wood-Block-Painting-Ellia-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3715\" width=\"243\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/09\/Wood-Block-Painting-Ellia-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/09\/Wood-Block-Painting-Ellia-1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>Two-inch unfinished wood blocks <br>Small cups of undiluted liquid watercolors<br>Small paintbrushes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Cover your work surface with newsprint to avoid staining. Pour a small amount of liquid watercolor into a plastic cup, add a small paintbrush, and invite your child to paint a block.&nbsp;There are six sides to paint, so encourage your little one to apply a little watercolor to each side.&nbsp;Use as many or as few colors as you like.&nbsp; Liquid watercolors work better than paint. The watercolor soaks into the wood, and drying time is very short. When the blocks are completely dry, use them to create unique structures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Two-inch unfinished wood blocks Small cups of undiluted liquid watercolorsSmall paintbrushes Directions:&nbsp;&nbsp;Cover your work surface with newsprint to avoid staining. Pour a small amount of liquid watercolor into a plastic cup, add a small paintbrush, and invite your child to paint a block.&nbsp;There are six sides to paint, so encourage your little one to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/09\/16\/wood-block-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Painting Blocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3713,"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-3712","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\/3712","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=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}