{"id":25942,"date":"2023-11-14T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=25942"},"modified":"2023-11-14T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:54:30","slug":"puddle-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/11\/14\/puddle-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Puddle Play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most children puddles have a magnetic effect! Today in the garden the children were delighted to find so many big puddles had appeared after all the rain. They were desperate to get their wellies on and start jumping! We wanted to see who could splash the most water out of the puddles!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/11\/14\/puddle-play\/9790b637-0ff3-41c5-bf6e-a36eefc6acf7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25943\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14140456\/9790B637-0FF3-41C5-BF6E-A36EEFC6ACF7.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We used one of the crates to jump off to see if that created a bigger splash! The children very cleverly observed that the higher they jumped from, the bigger the splash!<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWow, that was big, I got more wet!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After all their jumping, the children decided to roll the tyres through the puddles to see if they made big splashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1, 2, 3 Push!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/11\/14\/puddle-play\/3c0dac35-ccf5-4c6f-9b2a-930c6580edef\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25944\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141131\/3C0DAC35-CCF5-4C6F-9B2A-930C6580EDEF.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I asked the children if they could see anything else in the garden that could make a splash in the puddles! They found the football and had great fun kicking it and throwing it to make big splashes!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/11\/14\/puddle-play\/d2b21634-12fc-4238-ba6e-00128595053e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25945\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141419\/D2B21634-12FC-4238-BA6E-00128595053E.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The children found a puddle in our big tray and decided to throw the ball to each other across the tray! This created big splashes which caused great hilarity when they got their faces splashed!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, it\u2019s very cold on my face!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/11\/14\/puddle-play\/94bc3659-c595-451c-af45-ac6e1ee09089\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25946\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14141904\/94BC3659-C595-451C-AF45-AC6E1EE09089.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen \u00a0life gives you a rainy day, play in the puddles!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Article 31 ~ You have the right to play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most children puddles have a magnetic effect! Today in the garden the children were delighted to find so many big puddles had appeared after all the rain. They were desperate to get their wellies on and start jumping! We wanted to see who could splash the most water out of the puddles! We used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2023\/11\/14\/puddle-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puddle Play!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34359,"featured_media":25947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447284,189,5556],"tags":[447288,445964,447027,447254,447079],"class_list":["post-25942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-movement","category-literacy","category-outdoor-learning","tag-puddleplay","tag-gross-motor-skills","tag-jumping","tag-rain","tag-splash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2023\/11\/14144545\/9428A217-F8C2-45AF-9C34-0063898BC3EF-rotated.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942","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\/34359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions\/25950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}