One of the things I have been most looking forward to is sharing the world of creativity with Barrett. I know she is still a bit young to recognize imagination. She is still very much learning about the world around her in a tangible sense – things going in the mouth, testing cause & effect (I throw this, it makes a BANG).
How much fun it was to show her finger paints! Since I couldn’t find paints that listed their contents – “non-toxic” doesn’t necessarily equal all safe to eat ingredients – I made my own. Since this was going to be a quick in-n-out experience, we only had 5 or 10 minutes of time to kill, I just used a simple water and corn starch mix with some food dyes I use for cake decoration.
She LOVED finger painting. I plan to make a better batch of paints soon, to give her another go at it.
For reference, the recipes I found and plan to try are here, and another one here that uses materials for toddlers/kids not still putting things in mouth.
