The unfortunate part about that is that my kids love painting. LOVE it. I don't know if that love will transfer over to painting walls and furniture because you know one day they will get roped into that, but for now, give each of them paint, a brush, and paper and they will sit and paint allll day long. But, like a lot of kids, they make a MESS. Even with me right there (breathing into a paper bag...kidding...maybe) they still manage to make a mess. You moms know. You see me. And I see you. A lot of times I feel like the paint is fun to create pictures with for awhile but if they keep going, it becomes this thing where they keep piling paint on paint on paint just to see what happens and that's where things go awry. It's like playing with mud. They're cute at first making these pretty little mud pies and cookies and 20 minutes later, they're an entirely new, unrecognizable species. That's painting with kids.
But, BUT, I pulled the paints out with a plan a couple of weeks ago and, not only wasn't there a huge mess to clean up at the end, but we actually came out the other end with two pictures that were worthy of a hammer and nail.
Gianna's:
Gianna's:
Seb's:
(The twins were at school when I did this so it was just a project for the 6 and 3 year old. Had I had four kids at one time doing this, I'm not sure it would have gone quite as smoothly. Maybe. Maybe not. Probably won't ever try that because I'm not that much of a glutton.)
P.S. I didn't plan on this being something you could do while being couped and socially distanced for (possibly) weeks on end but it totally is so I'll chalk one up on the coincidence chart.
P.S. I didn't plan on this being something you could do while being couped and socially distanced for (possibly) weeks on end but it totally is so I'll chalk one up on the coincidence chart.
