{"id":21806,"date":"2022-08-10T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=21806"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:55:02","slug":"playful-pom-poms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/08\/10\/playful-pom-poms\/","title":{"rendered":"Playful pom poms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Today the children decided they would like to make something for themselves.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We had a discussions and thought we could make our own Pom Poms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We had lots of different ideas as to what we could use pom poms for. Some children thought they would make nice decorations ,some thought they would be good to use for ball games or as a honeypot for Mr.Bear ! <\/span><span class=\"s2\">\ud83e\uddf8<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">I demonstrated how to make our Pom poms using wool and a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Pom Pom maker. The children listened well to my instructions and began<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>by choosing what<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>colour of wool they wanted to make their pom poms:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/0F05B141-18BD-4B88-9908-A046BDF7888F.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21809\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/0F05B141-18BD-4B88-9908-A046BDF7888F-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">We talked about how their Pom poms will look and the different sizes they will be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201c mine is going to be big\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cI like my pink colour\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Now it was time to cut our wool to create our pom pom the children began to cut with a little support needed. We weaved the wool in and out and around our maker until we had several layers This took lots of concentration and patience!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Once we had our makers covered we then wrapped a piece of wool round the middle of the pom pom and tied a knot..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/11B5C19E-0402-417F-8C52-71AE66CE9839.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21808\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/11B5C19E-0402-417F-8C52-71AE66CE9839-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Carefully we then separated our pom pom from the maker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Now we could see our own creations!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A beautiful ;colourful ;fluffy pom pom! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201c it\u2019s like a ball\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cIt\u2019s fluffy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cMine is big and blue\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cSo soft\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/3A4EEFCD-7966-46AE-BDA5-F348594029B4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21807\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2022\/08\/3A4EEFCD-7966-46AE-BDA5-F348594029B4-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today the children decided they would like to make something for themselves.\u00a0 We had a discussions and thought we could make our own Pom Poms. We had lots of different ideas as to what we could use pom poms for. Some children thought they would make nice decorations ,some thought they would be good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/08\/10\/playful-pom-poms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playful pom poms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508],"tags":[447077,447061,121643,447078],"class_list":["post-21806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","tag-concentration-skills","tag-creative-skills","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-listening-and-communication-skills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806","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\/38008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21806\/revisions\/21811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}