{"id":2609,"date":"2025-12-15T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:21:01","slug":"outdoors-and-christmas-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/2025\/12\/15\/outdoors-and-christmas-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoors and Christmas crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Outdoors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Building on gross motor skills outdoors by kicking a ball around the playground, throwing and catching a ball with friends and moving around loose parts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2639\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092235\/IMG_1657-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092235\/IMG_1657-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092235\/IMG_1657-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092235\/IMG_1657-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092235\/IMG_1657.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2638\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092229\/IMG_1652-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092229\/IMG_1652-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092229\/IMG_1652-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092229\/IMG_1652-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092229\/IMG_1652.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2637\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092225\/IMG_1651-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092225\/IMG_1651-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092225\/IMG_1651-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092225\/IMG_1651-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092238\/IMG_1660-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092238\/IMG_1660-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092238\/IMG_1660-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092238\/IMG_1660-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/05092238\/IMG_1660.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Santa&#8217;s Beard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children have been taking turns to &#8216;cut Santa&#8217;s beard&#8217;!\u00a0 We have a variety of types of scissors for children to use to help support the development of their cutting skills and fine motor skills.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2662\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105721\/IMG_1443-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105721\/IMG_1443-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105721\/IMG_1443-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105721\/IMG_1443-1-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2664\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105731\/IMG_1445-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105731\/IMG_1445-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105731\/IMG_1445-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105731\/IMG_1445-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be careful&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;I did it&#8221;!\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s so hard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Crafts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children have had the opportunity to use their creativity to make various Christmas crafts including decorating Christmas stockings and Christmas tree decorations.\u00a0 Children used dried sliced oranges to create a Christmas tree decoration, they threaded string through the orange and added glue and glitter to make their decoration sparkle.\u00a0 Children had to focus, use their fine motor skills and follow instructions from an adult to complete their decoration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2660\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105714\/IMG_1432-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105714\/IMG_1432-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105714\/IMG_1432-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105714\/IMG_1432-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2661\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105717\/IMG_1436-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105717\/IMG_1436-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105717\/IMG_1436-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105717\/IMG_1436-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2663\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105727\/IMG_1444-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105727\/IMG_1444-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105727\/IMG_1444-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105727\/IMG_1444-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2665\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105734\/IMG_1447-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105734\/IMG_1447-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105734\/IMG_1447-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105734\/IMG_1447-1-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got lots of stars&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;I did it&#8221;!\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s sparkly&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s a big sock&#8221;!\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;All the orange juice has disappeared and it&#8217;s all dry now&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;These were cooked in the oven&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advent Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children helped to create our very own advent calendar for Nursery.\u00a0 Children have been busy observing the advent calendar, discussing and identifying the numbers.\u00a0 Children have been learning that not all the numbers can be opened at once and to wait for their turn.\u00a0 Behind each bauble on our advent calendar is a note of a special &#8216;treat&#8217; for each child such as getting to choose a game or story, a trip to choose a book from the school library or being the leader on trips out with Nursery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2666\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105738\/IMG_8826-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105738\/IMG_8826-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105738\/IMG_8826-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105738\/IMG_8826-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105738\/IMG_8826-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10105738\/IMG_8826-1-rotated.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2667\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10135928\/IMG_8815-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10135928\/IMG_8815-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10135928\/IMG_8815-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10135928\/IMG_8815-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2670\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10145048\/Library-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10145048\/Library-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10145048\/Library-2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2671\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10145050\/Library-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10145050\/Library-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/bellsbraenursery\/uploads\/sites\/3546\/2025\/12\/10145050\/Library.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s 3, my age&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;What&#8217;s it gunna be&#8221;.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s your turn&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoors Building on gross motor skills outdoors by kicking a ball around the playground, throwing and catching a ball with friends and moving around loose parts. Santa&#8217;s Beard Children have been taking turns to &#8216;cut Santa&#8217;s beard&#8217;!\u00a0 We have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/2025\/12\/15\/outdoors-and-christmas-crafts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}