Paint water everywhere

[SundayCrepes]

My 4.5 year old wanted to paint. Fine.

He wanted two bowls of paint water. Fine.

When it came time to clean up, I started carrying the water bowls. He wanted to play with them. Er, fine, in the bathroom with the rug and everything else picked up.

He wanted to put the paint water on the computer desk in the study. Um...no way.

He wanted to use the paint water and the balance scale. Fine. In the bathroom.

I'm afraid to walk into my bathroom.

He wants me to come and see which weighs more. Gotta go.

[StrongBeliever]

So funny! I know how it goes. I have the BEST pictures of my son when he was three after about four minutes of unsupervised(I was on the computer) time spent experimenting with adding food color to the glue/borax gunk we made. He looked like something out of one of those Nickelodeon commercials with the green goo ALL OVER HIM. The kitchen was no prize either. I'm sure he learned a lot about color mixing, viscosity, and just how much mess he can make in a few minutes while mom isn't watching.

[Stacey B]

Sounds like life in this house. So happy we have a porch for experiments like those, keeps my hackles from going up.

[nathansmum]

Oh yes, and sometimes when I really don't feel like the paints coming out I send (suggest lol) they go outside with paintbrushes and a bowl of water and paint the fence or concrete.

[tallulahma]

My favorite thing to get the kids into is water play! Ive told them time and again, "messes with water don't count! Its just water!"

My dh has a near stroke every time!!!

Another reason im excited we finally found a rental with a porch and wood floors.

[cheery]

It's so funny how these things sound so much better in writing then while they are actually happening

Seriously though, this reads like a lovely poem. All you need to add is "but not a drop to drink!"

[tallulahma]

Originally Posted by cheery

Seriously though, this reads like a lovely poem. All you need to add is "but not a drop to drink!"

totally!

you should write it down somewhere for him

[SundayCrepes]

Actually, the paint he used was red. Naturally the paint water was red. It looked like a homicide in my bathroom by the time he was done. Let's not even talk about what inside the toilet bowl looked like. lol

Since then he did another experimentation in the bathroom--mixing lotion with water. He used up a bottle of lotion.

Today it was colored sand and playdoh. He was making pizzas with the playdoh and the sand was the cheese. There was shiny green sand all over the floor. Thank goodness I have a roomba.

Jen, the water thing--yesterday he had a big bowl of water on the dining room table. I didn't realize it was full. We came home from grocery shopping and I was in a race to get the alarm turned off. I threw the diaper bag onto the table, upset the water, and had a gallon of it everywhere. Tonight the wood on my table is swollen out of shape. It should go back into shape when it's dry, but it looks awful right now.

[rockportmama]

Originally Posted by SundayCrepes

Since then he did another experimentation in the bathroom--mixing lotion with water. He used up a bottle of lotion.

Jen, the water thing--yesterday he had a big bowl of water on the dining room table. I didn't realize it was full. We came home from grocery shopping and I was in a race to get the alarm turned off. I threw the diaper bag onto the table, upset the water, and had a gallon of it everywhere. Tonight the wood on my table is swollen out of shape. It should go back into shape when it's dry, but it looks awful right now.

For us yesterday it was an entire bottle of organic baby shampoo. However, since our budget is pretty tight right now, that one crossed the fine line between experimenting & wasting!

And mine also leaves bowls of water out everywhere. And they usually get knocked over. Usually by me, the family klutz. I froze some water in bowl with peppermint in it & we melted it at room temp, refroze it, and melted it faster in a bowl of hot water. Didn't I get that idea from you, SundayCrepes, on another thread?

DS usually only gets to fingerpaint in the tub. Last time he wanted all green & I got some great pics of him looking like the Hulk! He does less fingerpainting and more sliding around.

Lots of fun!

[SundayCrepes]

Originally Posted by rockportmama

I froze some water in bowl with peppermint in it & we melted it at room temp, refroze it, and melted it faster in a bowl of hot water. Didn't I get that idea from you, SundayCrepes, on another thread?

And I got the idea from someone in the learning at home/pre-homeschool thread. That's what I love about this forum is there are so many good ideas to share.

I didn't mind him using up the bottle of lotion as it was cheap from Trader Joe's and there wasn't that much in it. A whole bottle of our expensive shampoo would have been a very different story.

[sweet~potato]

Awww... I remember when my ds wanted to do "experiments" like that all the time, lol. He still does sometimes (he's almost 10) but he's neater about it now, most of the time.