{"id":28305,"date":"2024-10-14T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=28305"},"modified":"2024-10-14T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T15:46:33","slug":"halloween-splat-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2024\/10\/14\/halloween-splat-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween splat painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the children were chatting about Halloween this morning. Following their interest,\u00a0 we thought it would be a good idea to search the internet to look for some activities that we could do in our Gross motor art\/mark making area in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>We came across splat painting and thought this looked like it would be lots of fun.\u00a0 We chose some Halloween characters and\u00a0 printed them out and stuck them on to a large piece of card.\u00a0 Then it was time to choose our favourite colours of paint!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2024\/10\/14\/halloween-splat-painting\/f205df46-8abc-40bb-83c1-7997ddc700a7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7.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=\"F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28306\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122653\/F205DF46-8ABC-40BB-83C1-7997DDC700A7.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI like the pumpkin, my mum said I can get one at the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I choose the paint?\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28307\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2024\/10\/14\/halloween-splat-painting\/4e6d2e19-9212-4966-a091-dfd566c10e8a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A.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=\"4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28307\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14122725\/4E6D2E19-9212-4966-A091-DFD566C10E8A.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI like red paint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c This is so heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m using my big muscles to push the blue paint out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next we went outside to the garden and found a good spot to hang our pictures up. Using different sized paint brushes, we dipped them into the paint and tried out lots of large movements to splat the card until it was covered in lots of different colours of paint.\u00a0 Forming a queue, we were able to take turns to move our bodies in different ways and\u00a0 splat the paint in different directions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to run so fast like Sonic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe too!\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123113\/8EE8785C-35B5-473A-9CD8-0CAB19A31F9E.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2024\/10\/14\/halloween-splat-painting\/8ee8785c-35b5-473a-9cd8-0cab19a31f9e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123113\/8EE8785C-35B5-473A-9CD8-0CAB19A31F9E.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=\"8EE8785C-35B5-473A-9CD8-0CAB19A31F9E\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123113\/8EE8785C-35B5-473A-9CD8-0CAB19A31F9E-300x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123113\/8EE8785C-35B5-473A-9CD8-0CAB19A31F9E-1024x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28308\" 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the card was covered in paint, we peeled the Halloween pictures off to see what we had created.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-rotated.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28309\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2024\/10\/14\/halloween-splat-painting\/81ecbfcc-76b6-4ecd-8036-f49cae2b1590\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-rotated.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"945,1260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1728903441&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0080645161290323&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-225x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-768x1024.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28309\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14123438\/81ECBFCC-76B6-4ECD-8036-F49CAE2B1590-rotated.jpeg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I can see the witches cat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe witches cat is wearing a hat, oh that rhymes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cand the pumpkin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We had so much fun using\u00a0 large body movements to create a piece of art, while developing our gross motor skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the children were chatting about Halloween this morning. Following their interest,\u00a0 we thought it would be a good idea to search the internet to look for some activities that we could do in our Gross motor art\/mark making area in the garden. We came across splat painting and thought this looked like it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2024\/10\/14\/halloween-splat-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Halloween splat painting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31671,"featured_media":28310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447284,447273,446891,2508,189,5556],"tags":[446333,446570,446796,447091,446767,446165,445989,383227,446272,8379],"class_list":["post-28305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-movement","category-creativity","category-digital-technology","category-expressive-arts","category-literacy","category-outdoor-learning","tag-creativityskills","tag-grossmotorskills","tag-outdoorlearning","tag-socialskills","tag-communication-and-language","tag-curiosity","tag-expressive-arts","tag-literacy","tag-mark-making","tag-teamwork"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2024\/10\/14124553\/623DC1DF-843C-4F1F-AA06-32622A93B2C2-rotated.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305","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=28305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions\/28314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}