{"id":553,"date":"2017-06-08T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=553"},"modified":"2017-07-13T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:24:08","slug":"blue-salt-tray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/06\/08\/blue-salt-tray\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Salt Tray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Salt<br \/>\nBlue food coloring<br \/>\nZip-loc baggie<br \/>\nTray or small cookie sheet<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Place salt (enough to cover the bottom of the tray) in a Zip-loc baggie. &nbsp;Add 3-4 drops of blue food coloring and close the baggie. &nbsp;Mix the color into the salt. &nbsp;Your child will enjoy helpign with this step. &nbsp;Once mixed, pour the colored salt onto the tray. &nbsp;Invite your child to draw letters, write his name, practice sight words, etc. in the salt. &nbsp;Gently shake the tray to erase the letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Salt Blue food coloring Zip-loc baggie Tray or small cookie sheet Directions Place salt (enough to cover the bottom of the tray) in a Zip-loc baggie. &nbsp;Add 3-4 drops of blue food coloring and close the baggie. &nbsp;Mix the color into the salt. &nbsp;Your child will enjoy helpign with this step. &nbsp;Once mixed, pour &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/06\/08\/blue-salt-tray\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blue Salt Tray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554,"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-553","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\/553","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}