More Painting

The finished product from our shaving cream painting. 

We have gone paint crazy at our house. The girls LOVE to paint. Well, paint and paper can start to add up so I have come up with a new way to paint frugally and it worked wonders. (I am sure it's not NEW but to the girls it is =))  Our Paint consisted of a couple of drops of Tempera paint, add in a squirt of liquid soap for easy clean up, and add in some shaving cream then mix it all up. After adding all this together we had 1/2 a paint container of paint with only actually a little true paint. This kept the girls busy for about 45 mins.

I hung an old shower liner on the fence with twine from the dollar store and clips from the dollar store (or you can buy a new liner at the dollar store as well)

We added rocks to the bottom so it wouldn't fly maybe next time a line and clips on bottom as well

E hard at work

Painting a masterpiece

E decided splatter paint was fun so K followed along. As you can tell it got a little messy.. (good news with dish soap added to the paint  it cleaned right up with a wash rag. It also washed right off the liner and the fence)

E still hard at work

K adding her color mixing skill to it.. She wanted some purple. 

After they got finished painting we sprayed it down with the hose and it cleaned up, I left it out to dry  and then put the liner away for another day of painting. =)

Sidewalk Painting

 Sidewalk chalk is fun but after awhile it gets boring. So you color and then wash it away so what. When you have kids that love to paint like I do (but don't want the mess inside) Sidewalk Paint.. We tried the stuff from Crayola and they loved it but it didn't come off very well. I ran across this recipe on the internet and decided what the heck lets give it a try.  Everyday now they ask to paint the sidewalk, even better they clean up their own mess. The first day we only used a couple drops of food coloring and washed it as soon as they finished playing and it cleaned up nice with water and a broom, the next day we used 4-6 drops of coloring and left it on all day.. Still cleaned up nice.. So now this summer we have a new toy..

The recipe for sidewalk paint is.. 


1/4 cup of cornstarch
1/4 cup of water
6-8 drops of food coloring (or however you want your color to look add more or less)
Mix the cornstarch and water together then add the food coloring. 

For us it took a couple of batches to get all the colors we wanted. I think it was 3 batches to fill a 12 count muffin pan.  ENJOY!

Girls getting ready to paint.

Girls painting for 30+ mins =)

Our finished product

Our finished product