So it’s school holidays for us at the moment… well kinder holidays. We’re still running at a mile a minute, with birthday parties and this crazy family wedding, but this week I was determined to do something fun with the kids, something they’d wanted to do for ages.
We got out the paints.
I was just going to let them paint with boring old paint brushes but then we began chatting about patterns and printing so I gathered a few interesting house hold items and we got busy…
The potato masher was a lot of fun to print with, as was a toilet roll. We also tried various play dough cutters, one of those little rolling play dough cutting wheels, a dish brush, and some bubble wrap. We could have used fruit or vegetables but I generally don’t like to use food for art or play (though we do love play dough – I am hypocritical like that sometimes)
Muski was able to join in too, though I corralled him in the high chair so painted fingers didn’t escape all over my house. Even I had a go at the bubble wrap printing!
Heaps of fun…. Now they want to know what we are doing tomorrow!
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You do know I will be inspecting the mashed potatoes carefully next time we are invited for dinner.
Rhetorical question, does crazy refer to the wedding or the family ?
By Man Candy on 07.02.09 10:04 pm | Permalink
Oh I love this idea! Thanks for sharing it. We’ll definitely try some potato-masher-printing!
By SquiggleMum on 07.02.09 10:07 pm | Permalink
Love the bubble wrap painting. Your photos always look so nice too!
By PlanningQueen on 07.02.09 10:12 pm | Permalink
Crafts are a lot of fun. Your kids are adorable too!
By Cascia @ Healthy Moms on 07.03.09 5:34 am | Permalink
looks like lots of fun!!!!
By Blossom on 07.03.09 8:32 am | Permalink
M is well and truly strapped in :)
By Andrew on 07.03.09 8:50 am | Permalink
That’s so cool …. makes me want to do it, but I don’t think my 14 and 12 year old would be too keen LOL. They are such party poopers sometimes *hehe*
By Barbara on 07.03.09 8:53 am | Permalink
hurrah for your brain keeping my kids entertained :-) looks like this arvo we will be painting
By Shae on 07.03.09 11:25 am | Permalink
That’s very cool! I bet Erin would like that.
By Bec on 07.03.09 11:29 am | Permalink
Yeah, the problem with being creative is that kids demand a follow up act. They dont seem to understand that such creativity takes a lot outta a mummah! LOL
By KindaSassy on 07.06.09 4:01 am | Permalink
I love this we just potato prints and My little one was printing/ experimenting with all sorts of things like rocks and sticks. I love the bubble wrap idea and we just recieved ssome in the mail!! thanks for the inspiration,what a lovely blog and little ones you have
By belle on 07.16.09 4:56 am | Permalink
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