{"id":8703,"date":"2026-02-12T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:32:11","slug":"the-pet-popper-upper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/02\/12\/the-pet-popper-upper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pet Popper-Upper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their learning about looking after pets the children listened to the story of the Pet Popper -Upper. They then had to set to work creating their own one.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8703 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/02\/12\/the-pet-popper-upper\/img_4920\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/02\/12142548\/IMG_4920-765x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/02\/12142548\/IMG_4920-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/02\/12142548\/IMG_4920-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whiteness12\/uploads\/sites\/2855\/2026\/02\/12142548\/IMG_4920-768x1028.jpg 768w, 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100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The ideas and creativity was amazing and the children loved coming up with new ways to make the pet pop up. it was good to see their confidence growing as they tried new modelling techniques and practiced craft skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their learning about looking after pets the children listened to the story of the Pet Popper -Upper. They then had to set to work creating their own one. The ideas and creativity was amazing and the children loved coming up with new ways to make the pet pop up. it was good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/2026\/02\/12\/the-pet-popper-upper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pet Popper-Upper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,10,3,39,19,12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-craft","category-expressive-arts","category-listening-and-talking","category-literacy","category-maths","category-social-skills","category-stem","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whiteness12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}