It has been unusually warm here this week so we have been able to play outdoors for the first time since Buddy became more mobile. Luckily, my husband also had the day off, so we were able to have a family fun day.
We decided to do some painting outdoors. Buddy is still at the stage where everything goes into his mouth so I looked up some edible paint recipes and found this nice and simple one on Pinterest.
I amended the recipe and used only a sprinkle of salt in case Buddy decided to eat it.
It only took about five minutes to make enough to fill two 200g baby food jars. I wanted more colours, so I slightly increased the quantities and ended up with five jars.
As Buddy is unlikely to produce anything of Picasso standard yet, he paints on the back of a roll of wallpaper we bought in a bargain bin one day. It is nice and thick so he is unlikely to tear it, and I can make a huge canvas by taping pieces together.
We started off with a few colours. Buddy really seemed to like the texture and enjoyed swirling it around on the paper.
He enjoyed playing with the tape at the edge of the paper more than playing with the paint at times!
After about ten minutes Buddy got bored and decided that eating mud was more fun than painting, so we decided to have a paddling pool bath to clean him up.
The great thing about the edible baby paint is that it comes straight off and it hasn't stained anything yet. After five minutes splashing in the water, Buddy was clean as a whistle.
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