Day 141: Bath Watercolors

Well, I was totally prepared to call today a total and utter failure.  Iris wanted to do the exact same craft as yesterday for craft today, so I compromised and decided to take our water colors to the bath.  Well, as soon as we started, nothing showed up on the tub.  I was getting really bummed, but then I realized that if we used our fingers, the colors were much darker and covered better.  Unfortunately, we didn't get pictures because they were just wet streaks running down the tub by the time the girls were done.

Though, at the end, it did turn into body paint, and at one point, I had three of the cutest bunny rabbits ever in the tub.

Sorry there isn't much to say about this one....

Day 93: Watercolors

Can you believe we are 93 days into the new year and this is the FIRST time we've done actual watercolors?  We did ice watercolors early on in the year, but to ever just paint with specific watercolor paints, well, this was a first!  Iris does watercolors every week at school, but they do 1 color at a time, and they do the really fancy wet paper watercolors, so this was a new opportunity for her.  Penny had NEVER watercolored before, so it was new for her too.

I remembered why i hate watercolors as soon as we started.  They NEVER stay clean.  As in, when you deal with little ones and watercolors, they CONSTANTLY mix the colors!... especially in a 24 colored pack :/  it makes me want to twitch a little.

Penny found it much more interesting to color the water than paint on the paper.  Iris wanted to color the entire paper like they do in school.  She got almost all the way done, and then Penny spilled her water cup all over the table, quickly ending our watercolor painting excursion.

Day 2- SUCCESS!

I am so excited!  Today's craft, water color Popsicles turned out to be a HUGE success.  Minimal preparation was required, as in, I took 10 minutes last night and filled an ice tray and dropped a few drops of different colored food color in each tray, stuck sticks in the trays and froze them overnight.

My 3yo paints at school almost every day.  They do this really cool technique where they wet both the paper and the brush, it turns into really beautiful paintings.  I was hoping that this would turn into something similar that she would enjoy just as much as she enjoys painting at school.

I must say, I was leery at best.  I was wondering if it would really work.  I thought it may not end up coloring on the paper at all, but I was presently surprised today when I got them out of the freezer, they worked SO well!  The kids had a blast, and I enjoyed them too.  Here are a few pictures of the finished products.  Quick, easy, and FUN, I will have to remember this one for summer time!
Still formulating tomorrow's craft, not sure what to do, but I am sure we will have fun.  I just want to give a prop to http://factorydirectcraft.com/factorydirectcraft_blog/ice-painting/ for the idea for today's craft.