{"id":2686,"date":"2020-05-01T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/?page_id=2686"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:16:04","slug":"the-owl-who-was-afraid-of-the-dark-exa-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/the-owl-who-was-afraid-of-the-dark-exa-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark – EXA Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark –\u00a0<\/strong>Expressive Arts Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a well known and well loved story about a baby owl who seeks help to overcome his fear of the dark.\u00a0 Find a link to the story here You Tube – The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark.<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch the video and try out some of these activities.<\/p>\n

Fireworks Painting<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the story, Plop and his Mummy and Daddy enjoyed a fireworks display.\u00a0 Make your own fireworks painting.<\/p>\n

Splatter painting is a great way to create the effect of\u00a0 colourful fireworks exploding in the sky.\u00a0 \u00a0This short clip illustrates the method.<\/p>\n

You Tube – Splatter Painting Method<\/a><\/p>\n

Jackson Pollock was a famous artist who used a splatter painting effect in his pictures.\u00a0 View 2 of his pictures online at<\/p>\n

National Galleries of Scotland – Jackson Pollock<\/a><\/p>\n

Splatter painting can be quite messy so you should work somewhere you can safely make a mess<\/strong> (outdoors would be ideal but not essential) and wear old clothes.<\/p>\n

You will need:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0black paper\/card or paper\/card\u00a0 that has been painted black and allowed to dry, paint brushes, coloured children\u2019s paints, water,<\/p>\n

The black background represents the night sky.\u00a0\u00a0Mix your paints so that they are quite runny and splatter easily.<\/p>\n

Get splattering!<\/p>\n

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Create \u201cBeautiful moonlight\u201d Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

You will need:<\/strong> black paper or paper that has been painted black and left to dry, white chalk and space to do some messy work!<\/p>\n

At the top of your paper, draw a moon using the chalk and smudge it with your fingers to spread the chalk round and round in a circle.<\/p>\n

In the bottom half of the picture, use your chalk to draw houses (perhaps your own) and parks.\u00a0 The white chalk lines you make will look like the moonlight glinting off the top of houses and trees.\u00a0 Again, use your finger to spread the chalk.<\/p>\n

Chalk pictures smudge easily,\u00a0 If you want to stop the picture smudging, spray a light coating of hairspray across the whole of your picture.<\/p>\n

Make Some Shadow Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

You will need:\u00a0<\/strong>a sunny day, an outdoor space where you can see shadows being cast on the ground or against a wall.<\/p>\n

Stand with your feet together and arms spread wide apart.\u00a0 Look at the shadow you have cast.\u00a0 Does it look like a tree trunk and branches?\u00a0 Can you think of way to make it look like the shadow of tree covered in leaves?<\/p>\n

What other shadow pictures can you make?\u00a0 Experiment with using different objects – for example, is it possible to make the shadow of a cereal packet look like a skyscraper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark –\u00a0Expressive Arts Activities This is a well known and well loved story about a baby owl who seeks help to overcome his fear of the dark.\u00a0 Find a link to the story here You Tube – The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. Watch the video … Continue reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark – EXA Activities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20798,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2686","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2686\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/learningoutdoorssupportteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}