For the past week or so, the girls have been fighting a bad cold. So I jump at any opportunity to get them out into the warm sunshine. My girls, and probably every other child under six, just LOVE to paint! When one of my daughters asked if she could paint yesterday, I enthusiastically shouted "YES"! She must have thought I had gone a bit nuts, and maybe she was right. :-)
So I got out every watercolors pallet that we owned and told them to have at it!
Love these little faces.
We only had one paintbrush for some reason. Thankfully, World War III didn't break out over who got to use it. Giada was quite content using her little fingers. This activity proved to be very exciting for Giada as she is currently working on her colors in school.
She thought it would be fun to put a little bit of paint on each over her fingers.
Angela much preferred to use the paintbrush.
Painting was also such a fun way to talk about how God created so many AMAZING colors! We tried to blend paints together to come up with our own special colors...but, most of them came out to be a grody shade of brown. :-)
This also sparked a fun "color finding scavenger hunt" around the yard.
This activity was such a blast! The girls loved it! They got some much needed sunshine and it was a great learning experience both spiritually and mentally. We need to break out these paint pallets a little more often. The finished product was promptly hung on the laundry room wall so that "Mamma can look at it while she does laundry!" Oh, the joys of being a mom!
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