{"id":29423,"date":"2026-03-06T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=29423"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:35:19","slug":"sensory-fun-in-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2026\/03\/06\/sensory-fun-in-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensory Fun In The Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently in the pond the children had a great time bringing laughter, creativity and a little bit of delightful chaos when painting with their feet. <\/span><\/p>\n

Watching the children step into bright colours and stamp their tiny footprints onto paper, and popping the bubbles in bubble wrap, is not only adorable- it\u2019s also a wonderful way for them to explore art and sensory play.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\u201c it\u2019s slippy\u201d \u00a0 \u201c I like it\u201d<\/p>\n

All the children enjoyed the cool feeling of paint between their toes, the squishy texture as they step into it, and the slip sliding as they created the colourful prints they left behind it all helps stimulate their senses, it also supports creativity, coordination and confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long before the children asked for paint brushes and the squeals of laughter filled the room as they felt the tickle of the bristles on their feet. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c it tickles\u201d<\/p>\n

They all like the warmth of the soapy water we used to \u201cclean\u201d their feet <\/span><\/p>\n

The children extended their interest in footprints by making pictures of dinosaur footprints comparing sizes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cStomp, stomp,stomp\u201d<\/p>\n

Great messy fun was had by all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently in the pond the children had a great time bringing laughter, creativity and a little bit of delightful chaos when painting with their feet. Watching the children step into bright colours and stamp their tiny footprints onto paper, and popping the bubbles in bubble wrap, is not only adorable- it\u2019s also a wonderful way … Continue reading Sensory Fun In The Pond<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28287,"featured_media":29425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[446333,446570,447091],"class_list":["post-29423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-creativityskills","tag-grossmotorskills","tag-socialskills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/cartmill\/uploads\/sites\/13750\/2026\/03\/06150003\/791D1D5A-6FD3-41AA-83A9-F8AA8FFDB0EB.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423","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\/28287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423\/revisions\/29427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}