We checked off one thing on our summer to-do list already today. Item number ten was painting in the bathtub with homemade finger paints. I used the Wilton gel colors that can be found in the cake section at Walmart and barely dipped the tips of a fork in it. I used it very sparingly and cautiously in other words. Just don’t hold me accountable for your bathtub walls! I did use more cornstarch than it called for, but I also used a very watery soap. Make sure you use something that you know won’t cause a rash or skin irritation. I just mixed until I got a consistency that I thought was appropriate. It dripped a lot, and kind of washed itself as he went, since he splashed so much. But I didn’t even have to wipe down anything, I just rinsed the tub with the detachable shower head. He had so much fun with it, I may go get some containers from Walmart to make our own paints to keep in the bathroom. I’ll let you know if I make some sort of floating artist palette, the ice tray on the edge was a little precarious.

(Sorry if the colors in these pictures look off to anyone.  They look okay on my monitor which is calibrated fairly accurately, but they were edited heavily to reduce the lovely yellow-green glow of compact fluorescents.)

Starting to get a little wild and crazy

Hmmm, face paint

What should I do next?

HAHAHA, you don’t even want to know!! What’s that? You do want to know? Oh, well in that case…I’m painting my butt!

Comments

3 Responses to “#10 paint the bathtub”

    Julie
    June 30th, 2008 6:49 am

    Very cool! I saw a site about making homemade finger paints the other day, but we never tried it in the bathtub. We paint with shaving cream. Ha! I can’t remember…are you homeschooling Caleb or are you just thinking of it?

    Rachel says: Technically I still haven’t decided, but I feel like I know the answer in my heart, it is just a matter of figuring out everything in my head. It is scary!
    I had also seen something about shaving cream. His eyes got rather irritated by the end, so I think I might try some tearless shampoo in the next batch.

    Amber
    June 30th, 2008 8:35 am

    Too funny! Love the list and love the pics with all the paint in Caleb’s hair :)

    Val
    July 1st, 2008 11:01 am

    That looks like a lot of fun…definitely something to keep him busy for a while!

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