{"id":29437,"date":"2020-05-18T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/?p=29437"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:08:57","slug":"make-your-own-skittles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2020\/05\/18\/make-your-own-skittles\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Own Skittles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130348\/bottles-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29438\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2020\/05\/18\/make-your-own-skittles\/bottles-water\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130348\/bottles-water.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"456,485\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bottles water\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130348\/bottles-water.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130348\/bottles-water.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-29438\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130348\/bottles-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a>Some of you may have skittles at home but, if not, why not try to make your own? It&#8217;s a great game for strengthening your muscles, improving your control and developing your hand-eye co-ordination.<\/p>\n<p>All you need are some empty bottles and small balls (or socks).<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130358\/socks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29439\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2020\/05\/18\/make-your-own-skittles\/socks\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130358\/socks.png\" data-orig-size=\"460,310\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"socks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130358\/socks.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130358\/socks.png\" class=\"alignright wp-image-29439\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/HecklegirthNursery\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/05\/18130358\/socks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Add some water to each of the bottles to help them stand up.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Arrange your bottles on the floor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Roll your socks into balls if you have no balls at home.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Roll the ball towards the skittles and see how many you can knock down.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think about what would happen if you added more water to the bottles.<\/p>\n<p>What would happen if you moved further away from the skittles?<\/p>\n<p>Why not write some numbers on the bottles then see who can make the biggest number when you add up your scores?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have skittles at home but, if not, why not try to make your own? It&#8217;s a great game for strengthening your muscles, improving your control and developing your hand-eye co-ordination. All you need are some empty bottles and small balls (or socks). Add some water to each of the bottles to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2020\/05\/18\/make-your-own-skittles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make Your Own Skittles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11919],"tags":[93,123,2039,234],"class_list":["post-29437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-2020","tag-family-learning","tag-health-and-wellbeing","tag-numeracy-and-mathematics","tag-successful-learners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437\/revisions\/29442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}