{"id":21732,"date":"2022-08-03T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:44:00","slug":"amazing-architecture-in-cart-mill-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/08\/03\/amazing-architecture-in-cart-mill-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Architecture in Cart Mill City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, we have spent lots of time in our construction and block play area. We are so lucky to have a large selection of block play and construction materials to choose from here at Cart Mill. This gives us the opportunity to explore our creativity through designing and building our own models.<\/p>\n<p>Using one of our house plans as a guide, we chose various sizes of wooden blocks to recreate our own houses! Using our knowledge of shapes, positional language and by working together, we created a living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom! \u00a0By adding loose parts, we were able to add some extra special features!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/11BEF5AF-B731-4E02-A3EA-3895FDDE76B8.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21733\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/11BEF5AF-B731-4E02-A3EA-3895FDDE76B8-300x291.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a kitchen. This is the living room. We\u2019re going to make a dining room\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThe kitchen is next to the living room. \u00a0The bathroom is behind the kitchen.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s got 2 toilets\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThese are the statues. My mummy has statues in the bathroom\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has a chimney. Steam comes out of it and the bad guys can\u2019t come in!\u201d \u00a0\u201cThis is my bedroom. \u00a0I\u2019m putting a cushion in to lie on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Using smaller blocks gives us the opportunity to develop both our fine motor and problem solving skills by discovering how to connect the blocks together to build our models.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/0B7461AF-0FF4-49BF-B10F-3B15C941B827.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21734\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/0B7461AF-0FF4-49BF-B10F-3B15C941B827-300x293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe all love playing with our stickle bricks and Lego. \u00a0Sometimes it can be really tricky to fit the blocks together. With a bit of patience, perseverance and using our fantastic imaginations, we have created some fantastic models!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/280740F6-768A-439F-BBE3-8EFB9C6D6EA0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21735\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/280740F6-768A-439F-BBE3-8EFB9C6D6EA0-300x296.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a birthday cake with candles on it\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201dIt\u2019s a T\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a play park. \u00a0It has a climbing frame, a slide and a swimming pool\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Working together and sharing our ideas, we were able to create our very own Cart Mill Lego city! Isn\u2019t it fabulous! We think we would have lots of fun living there! \u00a0Can you recognise the special people who live there?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/228AA63B-F8B1-4EEA-A1A0-E718FDF7EC68.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21737\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/228AA63B-F8B1-4EEA-A1A0-E718FDF7EC68-300x288.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe swimming pool looks like so much fun. It has a bit to jump off into the water and you go up the stairs and through the door to get to the slide. \u00a0It\u2019s got a cafe if we are hungry!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To challenge ourselves further, we decided to take our block building \u00a0outside! It was so much fun! Working together, we placed the blocks carefully in front and behind each other to create a path all round the Cart \u00a0Mill garden! It was sooooo big and meant we were able to walk all round the garden without our feet touching the ground (the floor is lava after all!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/80FB893E-0C0F-47EC-9622-712D90F662D1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21738\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/80FB893E-0C0F-47EC-9622-712D90F662D1-300x298.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, we have spent lots of time in our construction and block play area. We are so lucky to have a large selection of block play and construction materials to choose from here at Cart Mill. This gives us the opportunity to explore our creativity through designing and building our own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/08\/03\/amazing-architecture-in-cart-mill-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazing Architecture in Cart Mill City<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,5556],"tags":[446605,9125,446975],"class_list":["post-21732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-outdoor-learning","tag-construction","tag-creativity","tag-curiosity-and-discovery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732","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\/35649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21740,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions\/21740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}