{"id":20920,"date":"2022-05-04T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20920"},"modified":"2022-05-04T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:00:30","slug":"glitter-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/05\/04\/glitter-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Glitter Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a special visitor at Cart Mill today! One of our nursery mum&#8217;s came to teach us all about hand washing. Eilidh brought her special germ finding equipment to show us what happens when we don\u2019t wash our hands properly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/33CA3F58-E908-4C69-B080-7121246BBCC5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20921\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/33CA3F58-E908-4C69-B080-7121246BBCC5-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst Eilidh asked us if we knew when and why we wash our hands. Of course our clever Cart Mill children could tell us. \u201cBefore my lunch\/snack\u201d \u201cwhen you go to the toilet.\u201d \u00a0\u201cIf you touch anything that\u2019s muddy\u201d \u201cwhen you blow your nose\u201d.<br \/>\nEilidh told us about Glitter Bug. Glitter bug was shy and was hiding in the bottle. Glitter bug is a special soap that shows us what we miss when we clean our hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/3FB76F67-2405-4881-BA31-6367456C274B-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-20922\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/3FB76F67-2405-4881-BA31-6367456C274B-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we had the glitter bug Soap on, Eilidh showed us her method of checking our hands. We put our hands in the black tent and a UV light was able to highlight any spots that were dirty.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/DBA81FF1-8660-4124-9B26-64F269F3AC10-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20923\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/DBA81FF1-8660-4124-9B26-64F269F3AC10-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the UV light was on, our hands went a purple colour and we could see the white \u201cgerms\u201d. Next Eilidh asked us to re-wash our hands and look at the difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/FFFC1380-BDD4-4017-B27F-9E9201B3C9DB-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20924\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/FFFC1380-BDD4-4017-B27F-9E9201B3C9DB-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We put our freshly washed hands back in the tent, under the UV light and all the \u201cgerms\u201d had vanished.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/F91AC8D1-1587-46AA-A72D-1F0BC12A76FE-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20926\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/F91AC8D1-1587-46AA-A72D-1F0BC12A76FE-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We loved seeing the difference good hand washing with soap makes, and we learned the importance of properly washing our hands. It was so much fun! Even Emma and Helen had a turn. Thank you so much for coming to visit\u00a0 us today Eilidh!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/1DC3CCE5-93A1-4910-AEBC-15A0DA55713A.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20927\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/05\/1DC3CCE5-93A1-4910-AEBC-15A0DA55713A-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a special visitor at Cart Mill today! One of our nursery mum&#8217;s came to teach us all about hand washing. Eilidh brought her special germ finding equipment to show us what happens when we don\u2019t wash our hands properly. First Eilidh asked us if we knew when and why we wash our hands. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/05\/04\/glitter-bug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glitter Bug<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,54,135,4894],"tags":[446437,447032,447033],"class_list":["post-20920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-news","category-science","category-special-event","tag-germs","tag-glitter-bug","tag-science-experiments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920","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\/36351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20931,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920\/revisions\/20931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}