
{"id":10448,"date":"2020-09-30T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=10448"},"modified":"2021-04-19T08:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:25:48","slug":"fall-nature-school-using-plant-pigments-to-create-water-colors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=10448","title":{"rendered":"Fall Nature School, Lesson 1 &#8211; Using Plant Pigments to Create Water Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collect different types of plants, flowers, berries found in your yard or park. Only collect as much as you are going to use. Do not collect from a neighbor&#8217;s yard unless you ask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/flowers-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10451\" src=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/flowers-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/flowers-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/flowers-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/flowers-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/flowers-rotated.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Take each leaf,\u00a0 flower petal, or berry and smoosh it against the paper.\u00a0 Test different types of plants to see which ones work best.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10449\" src=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/test-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/test-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/test-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/test-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/test.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Choose the plant pigment you want to use. Create a shape on your paper. From that shape create a creature, living or imaginary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10450 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/picture-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/picture-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/picture-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/picture-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/picture.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10463\" src=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt-859x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt-859x1024.jpg 859w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt-768x916.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt-1288x1536.jpg 1288w, https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SmearArt.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After sharing this activity with Reba Luiken, of the MN Landscape Arboretum, she featured it in the <em>Nature Notes from the Arb. <\/em>I like the way she presented it. To read Reba&#8217;s post, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arboretumnaturenotes.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/10\/kids-activity-imaginary-plant-creatures\/\">https:\/\/arboretumnaturenotes.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/10\/kids-activity-imaginary-plant-creatures\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collect different types of plants, flowers, berries found in your yard or park. Only collect as much as you are going to use. Do not collect from a neighbor&#8217;s yard unless you ask. &nbsp; Take each leaf,\u00a0 flower petal, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=10448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11000,"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10448\/revisions\/11000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}