{"id":2344,"date":"2014-07-09T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:27:39","slug":"big-messy-art-painting-body-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museofthemorning.com\/museblog\/big-messy-art-painting-body-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Messy Art: Painting With Body Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Talk about BIG and MESSY!! How can it get more so!?!? Painting with the whole body is so much fun! It\u2019s a great sensory experience, it\u2019s messy just like kids love and it, and they actually end up cleaner afterward (because of the bath they have to have). The art though? Well\u2026 it didn\u2019t turn out so much like art\u2026 more like a slip n\u2019 slide.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it went.<\/p>\n

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We got these paints a while ago and since they\u2019re totally organic and even edible, I thought it would be awesome for a painting day where anything could happen.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re baby finger paints from Wee Can Too<\/a>.
\nI\u2019m going to tell you that I wasn\u2019t super impressed with these paints. They were kind of grainy and gritty and you can\u2019t really make designs with them, they just spread out and don\u2019t make color. So, what I wanted to be a big body painting day, turned into more of a sliding in paint kind of day. That\u2019s still pretty fun though, so I\u2019m not disappointed.<\/p>\n

Also, you kind of need to use them all in one go because once you mix them with water, they go bad within a month and they have to be kept in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t want to mess with those- Red Ted Art has a Finger Paint Recipe<\/a> that is non-toxic and looks pretty easy to make! Or, make some really quickly with yogurt with this tutorial<\/a> from Love Play Learn.<\/p>\n

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\nThe instructions say to fill the container with water and shake to mix. It also says that they might thicken and to add more water to thin them.<\/p>\n

Since we were planning on having a bunch of kids over to paint, I wanted more paint. So I mixed them in a jar so it would be easy to add extra water. It wasn\u2019t really necessary though as they didn\u2019t get too thick.<\/p>\n

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Add the water and then shake shake shake to get them all mixed up. You might want to make a face like my little man is in this pic. He was very intense about shaking.<\/p>\n

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\nRoll out a long length of paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nDrop some dollops on the paper.<\/p>\n

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\nInvite the kids to experiment.<\/p>\n

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\nIt started out with hands and fingers, but quickly devolved into feet and other body parts.<\/p>\n

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\nLike tummy prints!<\/p>\n

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\nAnd sliding in the paint down the length of the paper.<\/p>\n

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\nSo much paint everywhere!<\/p>\n

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And then the best part!
\nRunning through the sprinkler to get clean!
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This post was published on Muse of the Morning.com<\/p>\n

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