Thursday 8 August 2013

Body Painting

My plan for this post was to showcase some fabulous pictures of my sons hands, feet, tummy etc covered in paint, a mat with paint smeared all over it and some prints with beautiful painty patterns on them.  However, as with most things toddler related, things didn't quite go to plan, here is what happened:
A few weeks ago I have a fantastic idea that I would get the mat out that we normally put under Boris' highchair for mealtimes and put it in the garden and squirt some paint onto it and Boris would smear the paint all around and roll in it and generally have a wonderful, crazy, painty time and I would take beautiful prints from the patterns he created on the mat.
However...it didn't quite go to plan, basically Boris was really not particularly interested in smearing he paint around, he didn't really want to touch it much at all.  I gave him a brush which he used a little, but I can honestly say he spend about 30 seconds on the mat actually playing with the paint, very disappointing as it took be about 45 minutes to wipe it all up and remove the grass and moss stuck to the back of the mat! And then I had to clean him up because somehow, even though he hardly seemed to touch the paint, he ended up with it all over him.

I am hoping it is because he is still small and didn't really know what to do and/or was a bit frightened.
 I did manage a couple of snaps though for the short amount of time when he was engaged with the paint.





Might work with your kids though, perhaps if they are a bit older?  Have you tried this with your toddler?  How did they react?  Did you get some better results than me?

5 comments:

  1. I used to paint tableclothes this way with my young kids!

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  2. That's such a fun idea! I must try that once he has got over his messy hand phobia!

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  3. So made me laugh, I had similar experience with shaving foam, Kubi screamed as soon as he got his hands dirty and wanted a wash, Bee just tried to eat the foam. Plus I used my husbands expensive foam...yes may be when they older...

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  4. Heh heh, shaving foam is a good idea though for when they are older, in the bath perhaps, I have seen it elsewhere mised with food colouring!

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  5. This is exactly what I was looking for. The amount of paint is liberal compared to other paint boxes I’ve seen. The color is particularly vibrant, and it washes off easily.
    liquid latex

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