While at the store this morning I decided to buy chocolate pudding to use as paint. I gave myself my first mental-pat-on-the-back (POB) of the day. It seemed like it would be a new, simple thing to do that would require minimal effort.
After unloading the groceries, I stripped LP down to her onesie and put one of my old t-shirts on her. POB #2 for thinking of keeping the kid clean.
Then I realized I had no canvas for her to paint on (minus one POB), so I scoured the house until settling on the brilliant idea of cutting open a paper bag and using that. POB #3 for being innovative.
My fourth and final POB was for putting a towel on the linoleum kitchen floor to minimize the clean up.
I plopped LP onto the towel, dipped my finger into the pudding and showed her how to brush her fingers on the paper bag to paint. It is a good thing I used "edible paint" because no paint made it onto the paper, but a lot made it into her mouth (and on her legs and anywhere else that wasn't covered by the t-shirt). In fact, in order to maximize the amount of pudding that made it into her mouth, she started licking the bag where I had a put a small pile of pudding to ease the painting process.
At least it made for good pictures.
2 comments:
Kudos to you! Pudding painting...that is some serious mommy points for you my friend!!!
The pics are too cute. I did this Ryan, but vanilla and put food coloring in it. I put down wax paper on the table. He loved it and ate more than he painted with too. - Dianna
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