{"id":18489,"date":"2021-08-12T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=18489"},"modified":"2021-08-27T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:39:49","slug":"colourful-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2021\/08\/12\/colourful-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The children in the Toddler Room are always very expressive and creative so when we found some very colourful finger paints in one of the cupboards in the playroom they were keen to try them out.<\/p>\n

At first they were very careful, using only one finger, testing out each colour.<\/p>\n

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They experimented with different colours, making swirls on their paper.<\/p>\n

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Very quickly they started to use their whole hands, feeling the paint between their fingers.<\/p>\n

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Its cold and squishy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Small swirls with one finger became huge swirls and mark making with a whole hand.<\/p>\n

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Oh look at my colourful hands too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pink hands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the children had loads of fun painting with their fingers and hands and were very excited to see their finished artwork hanging up drying ready to take home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The children in the Toddler Room are always very expressive and creative so when we found some very colourful finger paints in one of the cupboards in the playroom they were keen to try them out. At first they were very careful, using only one finger, testing out each colour. They experimented with different colours, … Continue reading Colourful Fingers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508],"tags":[446333,446699,13089,445996,446121],"class_list":["post-18489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","tag-creativityskills","tag-finemotorskills","tag-imagination","tag-sensory-play","tag-toddlers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18489"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18489\/revisions\/18581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}