Ice cube painting

I came across a website for messy activities for children and one of them was to freeze paint into ice cube trays. I never had Ice cube trays but used the Jelly moulds we had at halloween. I put paint in the moulds and put the moulds in the freezer last week. Tonight Kaden wanted to paint so I got the paper down and took the paint out the freezer and out the moulds. I gave the paint to Kaden and let him paint a picture. The paint was a bit thick so I think next time I will water it down to see if it works better.

A Busy afternoon

I had a look on the internet and found a website that has loads of Ideas for messy play which is really good! www.nurseryactivityideas.co.uk One of the Ideas on it was to put paint into an ice cube tray and put it in the freezer and leave it to freeze. You then take them out the freezer and can paint with the Ice cubes. I seen this and thought Kaden might like to do it so I went and got Kaden’s paints to fill up the halloween moulds then I put them in the freezer. Hopefully we will use them at the weekend. As Kaden seen the paints he wanted the paint out so we done big messy painting!!

Later in the afternoon we all went swimming. Kaden had a great time. He was going down the slides which are really big, One of us would take him to the top and the other would catch him at the bottom. We must have been up and down the slide a dozen or more times, think we are more tired than what Kaden was!

Lots of fun

It’s been a while since I let Kaden do any kind of activity so today so that I could get the dishes done and kitchen tidy (without the fear of Cheeko Chops being let loose!) I sat Kaden at the kitchen table with his paint, sponges and paper along with some new stuff from christmas and let him paint! Kaden sat for ages painting I had to give him another big sheet of paper. He also liked painting himself and licking the paint off the sponge! Once Kaden finished painting I had to give him a shower but the paint stained his skin a little as it was starting to dry on him,however we managed to get it all cleaned up!

New Sponges

We were at Granny and Grumpy Grandad’s at the weekend and Granny had a little surprise for Kaden. It was some painting sponges. Kaden loves to paint so it was a nice surprise for Kaden. Kaden and I done some painting on Monday and used his new painting sponges!

Messy Painting

This morning I got some old wall paper and rolled it out on the floor, stripped Kaden down to his nappy and gave him the 4 bottles of paint to create a masterpiece! Kaden had lots of fun squeezing the paint out the bottles,then mixing the paint with his hands and painting himself.

Playing with Oliver

Last night Kaden, Daddy and I all stayed at Granny and Grandad’s. Oliver and his mummy and daddy were there too. Kaden and Oliver had lots of fun playing together and painting a big picture. It got a little messier than I though it would but it cleaned up not too badly and Kaden and Oliver looked like they had fun.

Paint War!

Today wasn’t very nice so I thought that Kaden would like to do some painting since its been a while. I got Kaden’s paints out and layed some paper on the floor, I then stripped Kaden down to his nappy and vest. I put paint on the paper and let Kaden paint away. I had a little go of painting too! Kaden thought it would be a good idea to paint my face so I painted Kaden’s! After we finished painting  it was time to put Kaden in the shower!

Kaden’s hand print aged 14 months

Mummy’s Hand print!

Happy Easter

Since it is the Easter weekend we decided to stay at Granny and Grandad’s last night. we got there about 3pm yesterday and went to the shops. When we got back Granny cooked us some tea but Kaden never ate his. Afer tea we decorated our boiled eggs which Granny boiled before we got there! There was a goose egg wich we also decorated, and it was huge! after decorating our eggs we all headed out to the garden for a little while and then it was time to get Kaden ready for bed.

During the night Kaden was a little restless and unwell. He woke up and was rather sick. After this kaden kept waking and moving in his sleep and with every little noise he made I woke up. At one point I brought Kaden into the bed beside us and managed to get a solid 3 hours sleep!

Today Kaden has been off his food and rather cuddly but we did manage to roll our boiled eggs in Granny and Grandad’s garden. I even managed to get a little giggle when we started to throw the eggs at daddy

Trying to Tidy up!

Today Daddy and I were trying to tidy up a little in the bedroom and had Kaden up beside us, we soon realised that it wasn’t a good Idea as Kaden was into all the bags lying around and kept trying to open the drawers which I was worried incase he got hid fingers caught! I decided to leave Daddy to the tidying up and took Kaden into his bedroom and sat him at his little table and done some sponge painting with him instead! Daddy was alot faster at tidying this way and Kaden definatly wouln’t get hurt!

What a Mess!

Daddy took the car to work today so Kaden and I stayed in the house and done some painting. I cellotaped lots of paper together and stripped Kaden to his nappy. I then put him on his tummy on the paper and squirted some paint around him and then watched him create his work of art! I had to have a little shot of painting so I wrote Kaden’s name on his picture!