Current mood: creative
Me and my crazy ideas strike again... this time I made some eatable home-made finger paint! I have been dying to show Mia an empty canvas and have her go nuts with it with paint. Well she is still to little to have real paint (Since she still sticks everything in her mouth) so I researched online and found a cute little recipe made out of jello and water.
I prepared the table with tons of plastic and plenty of wipees, paper towels and a bowl of water just to be safe. I stripped Mia down to her diaper (which she didn't mind because it was so HOT today) and sat her on my lap.
I dunked one tiny hand into the paint (more like dye) and let her do what she wanted. At first she just looked shocked at her hand all red (the dye was red cherry flavored jello it was all we had haha) and I showed her to smack the paper. Soon she was smacking the paper, rubbing the color all over it and jibber jabbering. I tried to take a couple of pictures but it was hard to balance a baby on my lap and dye everywhere haha. We both got a kick out of it and after a few "paintings" were done it was time to clean up.
Since it was my first time doing this, I was alittle careful about how much I let her play in the paint. So I only let her dunk one hand and its the opposite hand she uses to put in her mouth. I also figured cleaning up would be cake since there wouldn't be that much of a mess. WRONG! well true as it was, there wasn't much of a mess but that red dye would not come off her hand for nothing!!!!! It took me forever to get it mostly off and by the time I finally set her free to play there was still traces of it... ah well. We had fun though, can't wait to do it again and on a bigger scale!!!
Well I just had to share that little story
Me and my crazy ideas strike again... this time I made some eatable home-made finger paint! I have been dying to show Mia an empty canvas and have her go nuts with it with paint. Well she is still to little to have real paint (Since she still sticks everything in her mouth) so I researched online and found a cute little recipe made out of jello and water.
I prepared the table with tons of plastic and plenty of wipees, paper towels and a bowl of water just to be safe. I stripped Mia down to her diaper (which she didn't mind because it was so HOT today) and sat her on my lap.
I dunked one tiny hand into the paint (more like dye) and let her do what she wanted. At first she just looked shocked at her hand all red (the dye was red cherry flavored jello it was all we had haha) and I showed her to smack the paper. Soon she was smacking the paper, rubbing the color all over it and jibber jabbering. I tried to take a couple of pictures but it was hard to balance a baby on my lap and dye everywhere haha. We both got a kick out of it and after a few "paintings" were done it was time to clean up.
Since it was my first time doing this, I was alittle careful about how much I let her play in the paint. So I only let her dunk one hand and its the opposite hand she uses to put in her mouth. I also figured cleaning up would be cake since there wouldn't be that much of a mess. WRONG! well true as it was, there wasn't much of a mess but that red dye would not come off her hand for nothing!!!!! It took me forever to get it mostly off and by the time I finally set her free to play there was still traces of it... ah well. We had fun though, can't wait to do it again and on a bigger scale!!!
Well I just had to share that little story
