{"id":18692,"date":"2025-03-28T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=18692"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:20:19","slug":"paint-throwing-fun-for-holi-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2025\/03\/28\/paint-throwing-fun-for-holi-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint Throwing Fun for Holi Festival!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their RME topic learning about the Hindu festival of Holi, P6-7 pupils donned some very old clothing and headed outside on Friday afternoon to take part in paint throwing! Pupils learned all about the origins of the festival and how Hindus celebrate this by lighting bonfires and throwing colourful paint powder at each other, so we thought we\u2019d have a go ourselves! Have a keek below at the fun in action! Apologies if any children still have bright red or blue faces and hands tomorrow!<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":76,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/dg\\\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/28\\\/paint-throwing-fun-for-holi-festival\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18692 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2025\/03\/28\/paint-throwing-fun-for-holi-festival\/img_3291-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2025\/03\/28151736\/IMG_3291-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"18693\" 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clothing and headed outside on Friday afternoon to take part in paint throwing! Pupils learned all about the origins of the festival and how Hindus celebrate this by lighting bonfires and throwing colourful paint powder at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2025\/03\/28\/paint-throwing-fun-for-holi-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paint Throwing Fun for Holi Festival!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions\/18703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}