Like most great ideas, I got this fun activity off Pinterest. Such a quick and simple way for a toddler to play with paint without all the mess! What could be better?
Begin by putting a few blobs of poster paint into a zip lock bag, then tape the bag to the table, floor, whatever. I taped it to the plastic mat that we put under Boris' high chair at dinner time.
The let them explore the paint with their fingers, they will probably wonder why the paint isn't going onto their fingers, Boris kept checking his!
Boris soon started getting quite excited, smearing the paint with his feet the lying on it and rolling around like a loon! Love it!
Love the end result of the colours all mixing together. Would be a fun activity to do with older children to help teach colour mixing.
I am not sure if I just have a toddler with a very short attention span or if this activity really is only interesting for ten minutes? However it was good fun, super easy to set up and clean away, ideal for the mess-phobic out there. I do have a bit of guilt in the fact that I am throwing away a plastic bag that will end up on landfill but in my case I couldn't use the bag again because Boris had started scratching at the plastic towards the end of the activity, damaging it so that it could easily have ruptured, potentially resulting in paint everywhere. I am definitely going to do this activity again with just black and white paint. Could also add glitter to jazz it up a bit.
