{"id":23244,"date":"2023-01-17T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=23244"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:49:46","slug":"even-junk-can-look-beautiful-with-a-little-creativity-%f0%9f%98%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/01\/17\/even-junk-can-look-beautiful-with-a-little-creativity-%f0%9f%98%81\/","title":{"rendered":"Even junk can look beautiful with a little creativity \ud83d\ude01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the junk modelling area today, we were making bottle sculptures. First, we got some inspiration from a video to help spark our imagination. \u00a0We then chose our bottle and thought about what our inspiration was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/9F7470A0-8898-41D5-9840-8C82232AD04E-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23245\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/9F7470A0-8898-41D5-9840-8C82232AD04E-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u201cI think mine should look like a rocket with red fire\u201d \u201cI want mine to be sparkly like a fairy\u201d \u201cI\u2019m making mine blue like the sky\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/B58D1C7E-23D6-47A6-B63B-4C0350C7DCB4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23255\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/B58D1C7E-23D6-47A6-B63B-4C0350C7DCB4-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/0F7E9D4B-DD5D-4454-84CA-0540D1283DE0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23256\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/0F7E9D4B-DD5D-4454-84CA-0540D1283DE0-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe then used a paper plate for the base and then secured the plate to the bottle with masking tape. \u201c<br \/>\nThe children then gathered the resources they needed to make their amazing creations. They explored the resources and problem solved which type of adhesives would work best. \u201cI\u2019m using this tape as it\u2019s the best to stick the bottle onto the plate\u201d \u201cI will tie my\u00a0sparkly blue ribbon around the bottle\u201c. \u201cI\u2019m using the plasticine to stick the tissue paper on\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/0AAE3886-A8E3-4D8C-9F7E-16D0D28A1F22-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23257\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/files\/2023\/01\/0AAE3886-A8E3-4D8C-9F7E-16D0D28A1F22-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe children used lots of descriptive language to describe what they were doing \u201cI\u2019m scrunching the tissue paper up small to fit on the top of my bottle\u201c. \u201c I\u2019m using the hole puncher the heart one to make my plate pretty\u201d<br \/>\nWhen the children were finished making their creations, they wanted to display them in the studio. Good job everyone what beautiful sculptures you have made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the junk modelling area today, we were making bottle sculptures. First, we got some inspiration from a video to help spark our imagination. \u00a0We then chose our bottle and thought about what our inspiration was. \u201cI think mine should look like a rocket with red fire\u201d \u201cI want mine to be sparkly like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/01\/17\/even-junk-can-look-beautiful-with-a-little-creativity-%f0%9f%98%81\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even junk can look beautiful with a little creativity \ud83d\ude01<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2508],"tags":[446633,121643,4725,446848],"class_list":["post-23244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressive-arts","tag-creative-thinking","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-problem-solving","tag-studio-room"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244","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\/36298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions\/23262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}