Remember the small things #2

Remember the small things #2

Flowers picked for us from Little Mr at Grannies house.

How to make foam paint

We love this type of paint in our house. It is super easy to make and is great for toddlers. My Little boy lovers working with this paint as he has a lot more control over where the paint goes. Great for devloping those motor skills.

To make the paint all you need is a shaving foam, poster paints, pots, painting utensils and imagination.

I used this shaving foam because it is super cheap and my son has no allergies to any of the ingredients.

I use washable poster paints as I have found some others can easily stain clothes and skin.

You can add as much or as little to the bowls as you want. I find a tablespoons amount of paint is sufficient.

Give the paints a really good mix. I may have over mixed the blue one in this picture as it sems to have lost some of its 'bounce' but generally they are very fluffy.

These paints make great pictures as the leave a fluffy pasty texture behind when they dry. They are also great to splat acording to my son.

I have used these paints in various location and they have always washed away leaving no marks or stains. I am not sure if this is because we have used 'washable' paint as we havent tried it with other paint.

A few examples of our art work below.

What to do when it's raining?

What to do when it's raining? I hate when we look out of the window and it's throwing down. I am not very good at staying at home I like to feel like we have done something. So I really hate it when it's throwing it down as it is harder to get out especially when you don't have the car. We get cabin fever if we stay cooped up inside and although we are lucky to have a decent sized garden it's nice to have a change of scenery. A local haunt of ours at the moment   is the local park it's only small but easy to get to. So when we looked out of the window the other morn g and it was throwing down we decided to put our wellies on and go and be 'Peppa'

By the time we got out the clouds started to part and the sun shone. Luckily  we still had puddles had we could splash in. Little Mr still has some sensory issues so it was a bit of a big deal when the water splashed onto his trousers and he got wet (who would have thought it hey) but disaster was avoided when he  was given the responsibility of pushing Little Miss along.

Finally we made it too the park, Little Mr's favourite game at the moment is to play Firemano Sam and use the firemans pole. I love watching home play and his imagination create wonderful games and increasingly complex scenarios.

Hitching a ride on the way home as somebody declared that their

legs were exhausted.

I love our leisurely afternoons spent at the park.