{"id":39440,"date":"2024-09-17T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/?p=39440"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:35:26","slug":"cotton-wool-painting-blossom-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/kids\/cotton-wool-painting-blossom-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Wool Painting Blossom Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">In this fun and colourful activity, you\u2019ll use soft cotton wool balls and watered-down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/art-supplies\/paint\">paint<\/a> to create a stunning spring-time scene. With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/paint-ink-dropper-bottles\">paint and ink dropper<\/a> in hand, you\u2019ll add delicate splashes of pink, making the blossoms look as if they\u2019re blooming right on the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this fun and colourful activity, you\u2019ll use soft cotton wool balls and watered-down paint to create a stunning spring-time scene. With a paint and ink dropper in hand, you\u2019ll add delicate splashes of pink, making the blossoms look as if they\u2019re blooming right on the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":64992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,233,237,49,526,247,227,257,294,342,286,229],"tags":[700,566],"class_list":["post-39440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","category-activity","category-chinese-new-year","category-teachers","category-environment","category-nature","category-occasions","category-painting","category-seasons","category-spring-seasons","category-subjects","category-themes","tag-painting","tag-spring"],"acf":{"age":["6-9"],"skill-level":["Beginner","Intermediate"],"time-to-make":["30 mins"],"idea-type":["Art Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"K1804","time":"","skill_level":"","how_to_make":"","shopping_list":"Cotton wool, Pencil, Scissors, Water\r\n","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"Don\u2019t make the paint and water mixture too thick as it won\u2019t fully soak into the cotton wool balls.","image_01":64986,"step_instruction_01":"Begin by using a pencil to sketch out your tree trunk design.","image_02":64987,"step_instruction_02":"Cut out your tree trunk design using scissors.","image_03":64988,"step_instruction_03":"Stick it to the centre of your white A3 card.","image_04":64989,"step_instruction_04":"Make a watery paint mixture in the paint dropper bottles by mixing a few squirts of paint with water. You can create different shades of pinks using this technique.","image_05":64990,"step_instruction_05":"Stick cotton wool balls onto the tree.","image_06":64991,"step_instruction_06":"To finish, use the paint dropper to colour the cotton wool balls various shades of pink.","template":"","related_projects":"5385,20760,20750,33135,23880","latest_idea_content":"most-recent","show_date":false,"adult_supervision_needed":"Yes","youtube_video":"","products":"AG165,AG196,FE9554,FC923,ET1501","fbt_products":"","recommendation_products":""},"view_count":5660,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39440"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions\/84177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}