{"id":22522,"date":"2022-10-19T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=22522"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:51:17","slug":"halloween-sensory-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/10\/19\/halloween-sensory-play-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween sensory play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we were exploring our senses and developing our motor skills in our Autumn\/Halloween sensory tray. We are getting in the Halloween spirit. \ud83d\udc7b\ud83c\udf83<\/p>\n

This is a great experience for our youngest children to get in and explore different sensations on their hands and develop their hand muscles . For our older children it\u2019s a great way to develop their fine motor skills and writing skills as they can use their fingers or a tool such as a pencil, paint brush, or other item to draw, write letters, or form numbers in the sensory tray.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cI\u2019m drawing a pumpkin in the orange rice\u201d<\/p>\n

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We added some cornflakes, pasta, leaves, conkers\u00a0and some spooky halloween characters. We then added paintbrushes and tweezers to see what we could do with them.<\/p>\n

\u201dsee I can pick the conker up\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can get the skeleton\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cit feels hard and crunchy\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dIt sounds like rain at night time\u201d<\/p>\n

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The children then used the buckets as cauldrons and made their own \u00a0witches brew while telling spooky halloween jokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we were exploring our senses and developing our motor skills in our Autumn\/Halloween sensory tray. We are getting in the Halloween spirit. \ud83d\udc7b\ud83c\udf83 This is a great experience for our youngest children to get in and explore different sensations on their hands and develop their hand muscles . For our older children it\u2019s a … Continue reading Halloween sensory play<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,135],"tags":[446333,446699,446277,446165,446568,9538,13089,446272,4390],"class_list":["post-22522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-creativityskills","tag-finemotorskills","tag-colours","tag-curiosity","tag-discovery-room","tag-halloween","tag-imagination","tag-mark-making","tag-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522","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\/31671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions\/22533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}