Combining two of my loves – my boys and food. What could be greater?
Usually we go go go out of the house, but when Daddy is home, we like to chill and do something fun together. So, I saw a post from a NC blogger and new that if I could talk my Mister into it, then we would be doing this. My Mister loves to be neat and not get messy, but I convinced him to put aside his neat and tidy ways to let us all have some fun and then we would dump our boys into the bath! So, an adventurous morning we had!
My boys are all boys – which obviously that morning didn’t involve finger painting. What did they do? They headed straight for the rocks. That is all they cared about. So, bring on more rocks!
With this edible finger paint – you don’t get art (because it doesn’t harden) but you do get fun times in the back yard!
Items you need:
Small containers to put the finger paint in (I used tupperware small square containers)
Sweetened condensed milk
Food coloring
Newspaper or tarp of some sort
Diapered kids (better than ruining clothes)
Spoon
I poured some of the condensed milk in each of the container and put in some food coloring into each one, stirring it up, and gave each boy his own containers so there would be no fighting over them. That helped.
Then we laid out newspaper on our back porch (read slab of concrete) and stood back to see what would happen? Neither of them went for it. I helped BabyBach a little but Elibuddy was definitely more interested in the rocks.
So, what do we do with the extra? We are giving it to our neighbor who has two little girls. She said they love to color.
This can be a great way to get to know your neighbors who have young ones. Just bring them all to the back yard and let the silliness begin!
Then we just took their diapered little selves straight to the tub and gave them a long soak and scrub.
So – how do I think about this as shepherding my boys: God is a beautiful creator and has given us many things to enjoy : finger paint and rocks! Let them get messy, be creative, and have fun. Its a way we were created to worship!
