{"id":21758,"date":"2022-08-05T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:26:40","slug":"holiday-tales-and-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/08\/05\/holiday-tales-and-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Tales and Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children have been returning to nursery after their holidays with lovely stories to tell us. Some of the children have also brought us shells which we have used for some creative crafts.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/8477AF92-4321-484C-A405-A08786C52231.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21775\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the children decided to make her own beach for her shells. First, she cut the wood and then separated her beach area, making one for water and another for sand and shells.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/856FAAE2-39A0-4CF3-998C-71AB0F88954C.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21767\" \/><br \/>\nShe then told us that she had been at the beach and had gone swimming in the water. Great story telling and creativity!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/A6AF8FB9-888B-4DD2-878A-64F313FA6E3B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21771\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have also been making our own shell and beach pictures including a lovely mermaid. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/8BE2065C-47D7-403A-B292-F5F4F232BC89.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21760\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/8BE2065C-47D7-403A-B292-F5F4F232BC89-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whilst this activity is great fun, the children are also developing their fine motor skills , creativity and imagination as well as developing language and social skills when taking turns and discussing their pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Today we used the shells to make a wind chime adding some beads to make different sounds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/E8449E77-AAB7-49EA-90B4-0FB754F4E2D8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21784\" \/><br \/>\nWe searched for shells that had holes in them or we made holes in them carefully using a nail and hammer, we had to be very careful to tap gently so that the shells did not break or crack.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/1A815284-EFEA-4F33-879E-F0C05863095C.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21785\" \/><br \/>\nWe then threaded them onto the string, which was a bit tricky, before adding the beads. We now have a beautiful wind chime hanging in our garden. If you are walking past, why don&#8217;t you listen out for it on a breezy day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/A845EB60-78A2-478F-A637-ABE514F7685B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"945\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21792\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your summer themed donations and all your holiday stories, please keep them coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children have been returning to nursery after their holidays with lovely stories to tell us. Some of the children have also brought us shells which we have used for some creative crafts. One of the children decided to make her own beach for her shells. First, she cut the wood and then separated her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/08\/05\/holiday-tales-and-shells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday Tales and Shells<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508,187,5556],"tags":[447076],"class_list":["post-21758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-outdoor-learning","tag-shells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758","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\/34238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions\/21764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}