{"id":20869,"date":"2022-04-26T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20869"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:46:08","slug":"fun-time-junk-time-%f0%9f%98%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/04\/26\/fun-time-junk-time-%f0%9f%98%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun time, Junk time \ud83d\ude0a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the Studio the children were inspired to be creative by some giant boxes kindly donated by one of our parents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/B58E71F7-D51D-46DC-8612-BEE42D35E919-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20870\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/B58E71F7-D51D-46DC-8612-BEE42D35E919-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They decided to build a house complete with a back and front garden and even a chimney. The children worked well together planning how their house should look. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/0EACF109-AC9F-4675-A540-50B379A58636.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20866\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/0EACF109-AC9F-4675-A540-50B379A58636-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere was a lot of chat about what everyone had in their house and what they could use in the centre to replicate the items. Some of their ideas included;<br \/>\n\u201c look I have made the key to get into the house, I used a cotton bud and tissue paper\u201d \u201cI think I will make a table to have my dinner at\u201d \u201c I think there should be two doors at the front \u201c \u201c The garden should have rainbow grass\u201d &#8220;I\u2019m going to make the grass with different colours of tissue paper\u201d \u201c I want to make \u00a0a dinosaur room for my stegosaurus\u201d \u00a0I think it\u2019s snowing at our house\u201d I have made a barricade to keep everyone in the back garden\u201d<br \/>\nWhat wonderful, imaginative suggestions!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/FC7A9E43-6D3C-41B8-B304-570CF47857DC.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20867\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/FC7A9E43-6D3C-41B8-B304-570CF47857DC-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe children used team work and exercised their gross motor skills to move the big boxes to where they wanted them and working together, they were able to use their problem solving skills to keep the roof up.\u201d Let\u2019s put these supports into stop it falling down\u201d \u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/A2ED24F0-BF6C-4538-982B-8DAE24079AD4-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20868\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/04\/A2ED24F0-BF6C-4538-982B-8DAE24079AD4-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children loved using their imagination to make their house and spent many hours playing in it. \u00a0Great team work everybody, well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the Studio the children were inspired to be creative by some giant boxes kindly donated by one of our parents. They decided to build a house complete with a back and front garden and even a chimney. The children worked well together planning how their house should look. There was a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/04\/26\/fun-time-junk-time-%f0%9f%98%8a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fun time, Junk time \ud83d\ude0a<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508],"tags":[446334,445989,445964,446016,446927,288036],"class_list":["post-20869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","tag-problemsolving","tag-expressive-arts","tag-gross-motor-skills","tag-imaginative-play","tag-open-ended-resources","tag-role-play"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869","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\/36298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions\/20874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}