Really. It was getting bad. (I started singing to myself a new Primary song called "Saturday is a special day its the day that the mommy goes crazy".) It was not pretty.
The Baron had been moping around, Miss Sunshine was out of sorts and Mr. Bingley clingy and teary eyed. All while the house was in disarray. Have I mentioned I was going crazy? Then The Baron says with impassioned 8 year old angst: I just want to PAINT.
I respond: That is a great idea kid! Get out some paint and do it! (anything to keep you from growling and chasing your siblings).
But we don't have any paint.
No paint!? How can this be?
I determine this shall not spoil the kids plan.
After fetching a few supplies we:
laid out our plastic table protector; taped some wrapping paper down to the counter; found some of dad's cheap shaving cream; grabbed the brushes and then--the surprisingly fun part--got out the food coloring.
My bad mood was suddenly washed away and replaced with my own internal sunshine. I was positively glowing watching my kids make their art work. We listened to Grieg in the background and I snapped pictures while turning pirouettes in the kitchen. So check out some of the pics of the happiest moment of our day. You may want to put a little shaving cream in your bag of rainy day blues tricks! Sure cure.
Think of this like a word-less tutorial. Like you need a tutorial at all, so why bother with words.
You can see why I was suddenly ecstatic, right?
1 comment:
Glad you are so original in coming up with ideas to entertain your children. I would never have thought of shaving cream and food coloring, but I did always have paint!
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