Friday, July 20, 2007

Finger painting

Since Harvynna is not around, I was looking around for ideas to entertain Rowena. Currently, she is happily walking around, dipping her hands into everything, pulling out all the toys and exploring them and 'reading' her books without having them grabbed by Harvynna.

Was thinking of doing some finger painting with her this weekend. I had a bad experience the last time I used Finger paint with Harvynna as it stained really badly and I had to get rid of the clothes she was wearing. I got the set of finger paints from Toys r us and was so disappointed. Later, I did not allow her to wear any clothes while painting! (just diapers)

I found some easy recipes to make finger paints which may be less lethal!


Easy Fingerpaint
Ingredients

2 cups white flour
2 cups cold water
food coloring

Directions

Put water into a large bowl. Slowly add the flour, while the children are stirring. Once it's all mixed together, divide into smaller bowls and add food coloring.

Be sure to have lots of heavy paper on hand for painting. These paint tend to be too wet for newsprint or regular paper.

Plus its safe if she sticks her fingers into her mouth too!



6 comments:

Nina @ BabyBoon said...

thanks for the "recipe"! i saved it and i cant wait for gib to try it out one day :D

Chinneeq said...

Rina, post the art done by Rowena!

CL said...

Thanks for sharing.

jazzmint said...

i was just thinknig to do this this weekend ;).

Mommy to Chumsy said...

thanks for sharing this. will try it out with Ashley one day :D

Health Freak Mommy said...

Great tip there! Tks 4 sharing.
Can the color come out easily?