Bath Paint and Pinterest

First things first... I thought it would be fun to make my kids some bath paint tonight. They had a BLAST! Unfortunately, I only have 2 colors of food coloring, so we'll have to get more next time we go to the store.

Here's what I did... (I apologize... I took pics with my phone and my kitchen doesn't have much light)

First, you take 1 cup of clear-ish baby wash/soap, 4 Tblsp of cornstarch, and some food coloring.
You mix the first two ingredients together...

Then you add in some food coloring... I added 3 or 4 drops to make a stronger color.

I had some finger paint containers that were empty... so i just rinsed them out and poured them in. I gave my kiddos a thicker paintbrush and their "paint" and let them have a great time. I didn't see any color left on my tub after we rinsed it off. What fun... and so simple! All these ingredients I have on hand. :)

A big thank you to http://www.meetthedubiens.com/2010/11/bubble-bath-paint.html who I got the idea from!

Now onto my second thought for today... Pinterest. Are you on Pinterest? I enjoy Pinterest, but I'm not 'heavily' into it as some people I know. My mom has told me that she could spend the day just looking at all the cool stuff on there. I try to just stick with what my friends have posted.

I got to thinking the past couple days about how people are 'following' me. Now, I don't think its bad... I take it as sort of a compliment, that people enjoy my taste on a specific board and want to 'copy' me. I find it a bit exciting to see in my email that people are 'repinning' what I've posted. :)

Now, I've been trying to add the Pinterest button on here, as well as a counter, but I just can't figure it out. I know it can't be that hard as lost of other blogs have done it... but I just don't know how. Any thoughts?

Well, it's time for bed for the kiddos. We have a early day tomorrow. Until we meet again...

Name Monsters... and is that a bottle of jelly in the bathroom?

Went into the main floor bathroom this afternoon... and closed the door. Behind the door sat a bottle of lotion, body spray, and a squeezable bottle of grape jelly. Asked my kids who took jelly into the bathroom, but no one confessed. I'm a bit confused. Wonder what will be in my bathroom tomorrow...

On another note... today we made Name Monsters! I remember doing this in elementary school, but I think we made them into aliens. I love simple activities that my kiddos can enjoy!

First, we picked out the color of construction paper we wanted. Then we folded it in half (it's very important to do that first!!!). Then take some paint (I had little bottles of acrylic paint... you can put a glue bottle lid on it, and it makes it easy to write with!) and write you name on half the paper.

Here's Em... my 6 year old, writing her name with the paint. I didn't realize what a challenge it would be to take pictures and help the kids out with the paint!

After you write you name on the half, you fold it in half and gently press down. Then you open it, and let it dry.

Here are the kiddos... decorating their "monsters". After it dries, you have to decide which end you want to be the "head".

And the finished product! This was my Name Monster. I did this with ages 10 months thru 6 years... you just have to adjust some things for them. For example, my 6 and 5 year old wrote their own name with the paint and folded it. My 3 year old can only write her A in her name, so she wrote a big A on hers. My 18 month old, and the 10 month old I watch I wrote their names for them, but they got to decorate their monsters with color crayons. It was fun seeing what their imaginations came up with!

Well, hope you enjoy! We do a lot of activities at my house, so I'm hoping to put lots of tutorials on this blog. It seems we are always doing something! :)

Until tomorrow...