As someone who is constantly worried about the state of her military base housing carpeting, kid art is always a stressful situation for me... Hunter did get quite a bit of painting in today, including a short lesson on color mixing.
We started out using crayola no-drip finger paint, which really stunk. It has an opaque quality to it, not like beautiful, bold poster paint:
Also, it turns out that red and blue crayola no-drip finger paint does NOT make purple!
So I broke out the Melissa and Doug poster paint, ahhhh that's better!
Here is the final product hanging in the playroom:
A tip: Mix a little dish soap in with your paint to ease the process of cleaning your cups, brushes, and kitchen floor :o)
After the color mixing discussion, Hunter was given free reign over his art station - this particular piece involved a trampoline and a water slide :o)
All in all, it was a success - we managed to keep the paints on washable surfaces, which is all I was hoping for :o) Thanks to our Melissa and Doug no-spill paint cups with lids, the paints are now easily accessible, so I'm sure we will be painting much more frequently from now on...
