because it’s much cheaper, and you don’t feel as bad finding huge lumps of it dried out behind a radiator or in someone's shoe.
Justin, dad to Eames and Tabitha (4)
some off cuts of wood. Eventually, attention switched to emptying the paint out to make a giant mess for me to clear up. But paint is easy to clean and they enjoy the lack of supervision.
I could say the aim was to "free the unbridled creativity and expression in our children”, but that would be a rose-tinted fabrication akin to Pinterest. The truth is it was the path of least resistance, that resulted in more paint on paper and less in the other twin's hair. Rinse, wipe down, repeat and survive.
My typical approach to crafting now is to dump random items like old boxes or newspapers into the dining room with a tub of cheap paint and just see what happens. It’s been quite windy of late, so today I put a bundle of sticks on the table. They were in and out all day, painting them to look, apparently, like worms and rainbows. This turned into painting a box to look like a "car house" and decorating
Homemade Play Dough
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 tbsp vegetable
oil
• 2 tbsp cream of
tartar
• 1 to 1.5 cups of
boiling water
(add gradually)
• 1/2 tsp food
colouring
(optional)