{"id":8074,"date":"2020-06-11T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/?p=8074"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:23:21","slug":"painting-with-balloons-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/2020\/06\/11\/painting-with-balloons-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with balloons &#8211; Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/files\/2020\/06\/ballon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8075\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/files\/2020\/06\/ballon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"786\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Materials needed<\/u>: balloons, poster paints, paint trays, paper.<\/p>\n<p><u>Method:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Painting with Balloons is a great activity to explore creatively and imaginatively as you create freely using simple props in an open-ended and unstructured way. It also makes a great sensory activity as children use their hands to manipulate the paint and balloons to create patterns and prints onto paper.<\/p>\n<p>Partially inflate the balloons so that they are a size that the children can easily pick up the balloons. You can match your balloon colour to the colour of your paint, perhaps a good matching activity? You can mix and blend colours to create new colours. The pressing of the balloons onto the paper can either be controlled to make a pattern or it can be free and spontaneous, which personally I think is more fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials needed: balloons, poster paints, paint trays, paper. Method: Painting with Balloons is a great activity to explore creatively and imaginatively as you create freely using simple props in an open-ended and unstructured way. It also makes a great sensory activity as children use their hands to manipulate the paint and balloons to create patterns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/pinewoodschoolblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}