Showing posts with label indoor activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indoor activities. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Finger Painting Fun!

This morning it was lovely out on the deck in the sunshine, so we tried finger painting for the first time...


Of course we had to start of with pink, being Ivy's favourite colour and all!!

Things progressed quickly and before too long we had all the colours of the rainbow everywhere!! (I had to keep trying to hold myself back from cleaning it up and just let her get messy!!). 


But we had FUN!


Yep, there's a bit of blue paint on Ivy's lip...and yep it's there because she had to see what it tasted like...what a crack up!!


Then it was time to sit back and look at all the 'beautiful' (doesn't a mother always think her child's work is 'beautiful'?!?) artwork... actually checking out the artwork didn't involve any 'sitting back'...more like walking over all the wet paint with her socks on and pointing out the different colours!! Lucky it's washable!


Then for the clean-up - almost as much fun as the painting bit! 

This was a good morning.

Plus the selfie was a little improved on from the last one - still hate photos of myself though...




Thursday, 9 August 2012

Playdough!

Ingredients

2 cups plain four
1 cup salt
2 tbsp oil
4 tsp cream of tatar
2 cups water
food colouring


Method

Mix dry ingredients and oil in a saucepan


Add food colouring to water



Place saucepan on stove on low heat and stir continuously whilst slowly adding water


Lumpy gooey mess!!


Keep stirring till you get the consistency you want and as Ivy says..."TA DA!!"

You've got yourself some playdough!!


Pressing...



Pinching...


WARNING!:  After a morning of playdough fun having a lunchtime nap may be a problem, the "playdough...playdough...playdough" chant kept coming from the cot of my poor tired little princess until she finally dozed off to the land of nod.