Lily and the homemade puffy paint

In a land very near a Mommy wanted to do something to entertain her Small Girl and remembered seeing a Pin for homemade puffy paint. So the Mommy set forth and mixed up the concoction.  The Small Girl picked the colors from Mommy’s new package of pretty food colorings.  Mommy put them in some squeeze bottles and they set off to round up the necessary craft items.

Homemade puffy paint art

This was my attempt at using a ‘white board’ type background. Lil was too anxious to paint to let me take pictures of her paint.

Homemade puffy paint art

*Notice the Spring sticky wall behind Lil?  It’s been added to quite a bit since it was first put up.

Homemade puffy paint art

Homemade puffy paint art

Homemade puffy paint art

Homemade puffy paint art

Homemade puffy paint art

They dried really hard and still puffy. It was a fun craft and I’m sure we’ll do it again although next time I’m going to thin it down just a little, Lil had to squeeze pretty hard to get the paint out. It ended up being a collaborative effort and the resulting pictures were neat.

Puffy Paint- 1 c salt, c flour, 1 c water, food coloring

I put it all in a bowl except for the food coloring.  Once it was mixed well I separated a little out to a second bowl and put some in a storage container since I only had two bottles to work with. I then stirred the color in and moved it to the squeeze bottles.  Since I’m going to thin it down next time I might be able to just mix the food coloring straight in the squeeze bottles, but this time I was glad I had the bowl and spoon to work with.

I’m linking up with Nanette‘s Pinteractive post. Be sure to check her out.

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When Kitchen Gadgets are lemons, Make Lemonaid

I have a few recipes in my repertoire that require me to stand at the stove whisking a sauce or whatever for up to an hour or more.  It is tiring and boring work, but luckily the results are worth it in the end.  To make my life easier for these food items Waldo kept telling me he was going to buy me one of those self-stirring as-seen-on-TV things.  We were walking around Fred Meyers one day and found the stirrer thing on the shelf for like $5.00.  We tossed it in the cart and decided to make something with it the next week that would use it.  I ended up making a tomato sauce and put the stirrer to the test.  It flunked! It flunked like a frat boy that hasn’t been to class all semester and drank his brains out.  It hardly moved around the pan and after about 7 minutes I took it out and finished stirring the sauce myself.

I knew this thing was never going to be used in the kitchen again so I decided to see what kind painting instrument it would make.

I started out by dropping globs of paint on a paper in a open cardboard box*.

Painting with a auto stir gadget

Lil put the stirrer in the box and we turned it on.

Painting with a auto stir gadget

It did the same thing in the box that it did in my sauce pan. It drifted to one corner and stayed there. I showed Lil how she could gently move it around.

Painting with a auto stir gadget

I was pretty impressed with how the first one turned out, even if Lily’s paint choice wasn’t my favorite.

Homemade puffy paint art

I didn’t like how all the paint got corralled in the middle because of the sweeper arm so I cut it off. I figured this thing was never going to by used for sauce so I didn’t need it.

Painting with a auto stir gadget

* I use this box for a lot of different art and painting projects. It’s just a little bigger than 8×11, so paper fits great. Sometimes I use a little tape on the underside of the paper to keep it down, but it’s usually not necessary. It contains messes nicely, however marbles will still fly out of given enough shaking.

Painting with a auto stir gadget

Painting with a auto stir gadget

Painting with a auto stir gadget

I cleaned the feet of the stirrer between every painting so the colors were clean.

Painting with a auto stir gadget

The little stirrer vibrated crazy fast and the way the colors mixed was a surprise to me. I really like how these last turned out. They are the newest addition to the art wall.

Homemade puffy paint art

My phone doesn’t do the colors justice.

Homemade puffy paint art

I was so excited about this project, I thought Lil would love it, but sometimes you just can’t tell with her which way she’s going to go with something.  So I so so relieved when she loved it. We give Robo-stir painting a 7 out of 10 crayon review. 🙂

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

A few weeks ago I found a pin on Pinterest about playing veterinarian during pretend play and since we had just been to the Vet twice in the last few months I thought Lil would enjoy it.

I wrote out a checklist and put it through my laminator (I love a good excuse to use that little thing) and made a stethoscope out of pipe cleaner and walked Lil through the whole thing. She enjoyed it, but I didn’t think she really cared about anything but writing on the checklist. The next time we were out thrifting I found a little doctor set that included a stethoscope and grabbed it up. Today Lil begged me to play Vet. I was so happy. I grabbed the checklist (so glad I saved it) and the doctor stuff from the toy shelf. Lil grabbed Clifford and we went to work on him.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

We went through all of the items on the list I made and then Lil came up with a whole list of her own.  Most of her items involved Clifford stinking.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

Then it came time to make him better, so I kept asking Lil what she suggested.  For his bad fur she brought him plates of new food.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

She used the reflex tester for a eye dropper to fix his stinky eyes.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

His tail got stuck in a bucket, because you know it was stinky too.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

His ears stunk so Daddy gave her the funnel and bowl to pour medicine in.

Calling Dr. Lily Bean

The blanket covering him is to make his back better and the funnel/bowl medicine didn’t work for the stinky ears so now she’s trying the toy tweezers.

Dr. Lily Bean's patient

In the end Clifford is going to be healthy soon and he was a very good patient according to Dr. Lily Bean.

I’m playing along with Nanette from Say it, don’t spray it and her Pinteractive linkup.

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Lilyisms

I was watching a clip from youtube working on my computer while Lil was playing with her Potato Heads in the floor.  The speech that Lil gave me is one that happens in various forms pretty often and I think is adorable.

“Mama this potato head needs the bow.”

“Ok, I think it will look great on him, go ahead and put it on him.”

“I can’t. It’s hard for Lily Beans so I can’t.  It’s not hard for Mamas though so I need you to do it because it’s hard for Lily Beans”

“Well if it’s hard for Lily Beans I’ll do it.”

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I think the bow tie was the perfect touch for that potato head.

A view from Lily’s world

Lil is obsessed with taking pictures lately.  It comes naturally since she’s had a camera in her face from Day 1.   I have started letting her use my phone to take pictures and she loves it.  The pictures aren’t usually in focus, but I like seeing how she views the world.

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

Lil's view of the world

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