At Emma’s preschool drop-off the other day, Elsie and Delia walked right past a table set up with paper, cars and paint. It was sooooo tempting, but alas, not for them, and the were incredibly good at being ushered past it and out the door. I promised that we could paint with cars when we got home. So, we did!
We started with paint on a tray, cars, and paper on the low kid table.
Delia soon forayed into hand-printing & finger-painting.
They quickly used the paint up from the tray, so we grabbed some paper and made some prints with the last bit. They enjoyed pressing down the paper and peeling it up to see the paint transferred to the paper.
I then just squirted paint right onto the paper and let them have at it!
After some painting, they were noting how dirty the cars were getting. So, I got out a tub of water and some scrubbers for a “car wash”. There was lots of washing, drying, and then re-driving the (still soggy) cars back on the paper for awhile…
But then Delia starting doing some gravity research with her cars, and soon the drying rags were in the water and all over the floor. Oh, the puddles! Water is fun, and very wet.
Floor washing ensued.
And finally — at my suggestion and encouragement, admittedly — they finished up by drying the floor. They are pretty good at it, since they often have to clean up all their spilled milk and juice, as well. Ha!
Project done, fun was had, and the kitchen was now cleaner than before! Hooray!
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