{"id":2109,"date":"2026-03-18T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:04:18","slug":"chinese-new-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/news\/chinese-new-year-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese new year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/641331608_3483120611852966_1249547373244939821_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2110\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2110\" class=\"wp-image-2110\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/641386579_3483120825186278_1705472225010695374_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/641386579_3483120825186278_1705472225010695374_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/641386579_3483120825186278_1705472225010695374_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/641386579_3483120825186278_1705472225010695374_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nLast week, the children enjoyed playing with noodles and chopsticks for Chinese New Year. They explored the texture of the noodles and practised using the chopsticks to see if they could pick them up.We also did some painting to make Chinese New Year fans, where the children chose the colours they wanted to use. As it is the Year of the Fire Horse, they painted pictures of houses using cotton buds.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the children enjoyed playing with noodles and chopsticks for Chinese New Year. They explored the texture of the noodles and practised using the chopsticks to see if they could pick them up.We also did some painting to make Chinese New Year fans, where the children chose the colours they wanted to use. As&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/news\/chinese-new-year-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese new year!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meadowsdaynursery.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}