Rainy Day Painting

A few weeks ago we had a pretty good storm pass through. Of course having two kiddos stuck in the house can make things a little difficult. So I tried to set up some crafts and activities to keep them busy. Colton is at such a fun age right now where he can participate in more activities that I set up for Kailyn. It's so much fun to watch them play and interact together. Kailyn is such a patient sister. She tries so hard not to get upset when Colton decided to invade her space. He will eventually learn. I set up a paint invitation for the kiddos. I used extra large white paper that my mother in laws gets for use. I poured multiple colors of paint in a tray. Added paint brushes, painting tools and sponges. Then I let them go to town. They painted the entire paper, moved on to the light table underneath, and even themselves. They had a blast, and were kept busy for a while.

Painting with Marshmallows

A few weeks ago I was browsing through some blogs and saw a picture of a a child painting a rainbow with marshmallows. I didn't get a chance to read the blog, but I thought it was such a great idea. I do not even know if we did it the same way as the blog did. I like to give credit where it's due, but again I only saw the picture, so I don't know what blog it was from. So I set it up how I thought it should go. Anyhow I was really excited to try this with K. She loves painting and I knew she would like this twist. I set up the marshmallows (left over from our St.Patrick's Day rice crispy treats)  and paint, one marshmallow per paint color. I set down a piece of paper, told her what we were doing, and let her jump on it. She debated whether she wanted to dab the marshmallows for a dotted rainbow, or slide them for a smooth rainbow. I asked her why can't you do both? So she did! I didn't get pictures of the second painting, I was feeding the baby by that time. She had a ton of fun with this. I see an Easter activity with marshmallows in our future.

She got bored of using paper, and soon the activity ended up like this............

Thank goodness the paint is washable!!!  I would say she liked this activity. Can't go wrong with paint!!