Bathtub puffy paint FAIL!!

So I've had this bathtub puffy paint tutorial bookmarked (even before Pinterest!) for a loong time! I just hadn't tried it yet, until today. Perhaps I should have left it on my To Do list and never checked it off....

 Brother was still sleeping and she said, "Let's go ahead and get started, mom. Ok?" How could I say no?

The tutorial said to use grated soap. I wasn't about use a cheese grater for this, perhaps I should have, but I think it would have had the same, sad results!

Ohh la! la! It is grated up! It smelled wonderful!  So, I added the rest of the bar.

Brooke said she wanted to taste it. I had to remind her it was soap, not food! 

I wanted to make purple first. So I added some water (as directed) with red and blue food coloring and got...

 gray?!

So I added more red and gave it another whirl..

 

 I checked on it and it looked like something died in there and bled all over the grayness.

 

I threw in the towel here. Mine looked NOTHING like the stuff in the tutorial. I'm a very competitive person and don't usually give up, but there are some things that you just can't win! Stupid bathtub puffy paint pooey! Brooke insisted it was ok though, so I blobbed it into a baggie for her and we moved on to Plan B.

 

 

 (anyone need a baggie of shredded soap?...)

EVERY one should have a Plan B. So.. out came our handy dandy dollar store muffin tin, the shaving cream, food coloring, and foam brushes. 

Someone joined us for this one! Someone who isn't a fan of getting things on his hands- lol!

I used 6 drops of color for each cream puff (so if I mixed two colors to make another color, I only used 3 of each.. you follow?). 

We made yellow, red (pinkish), orange, blue, green, and teal. Purple didn't get a second chance today.

SUCCESS!!

I snipped a corner off of the "purple" bag of nastiness and tried to squirt it onto the wall. It fell onto the soap dish like a big lumpy turd with food particles in it. The turd did spread well on the wall though and Brooke had fun with it! 

See?! It does look a little purple-y afterall!

Benjamin had fun, but lost interest long before his sister did.

When you are done with the wall "canvas"... your body becomes one apparently!

While she played, Benjamin and I did this: 

She sneezed and got shaving cream in her eye. LOL

I do suppose using liquid watercolors like she did in her tutorial for the puffy paint would be a wise thing. It would also be wise to not use a WHITE towel to clean up. Oops.

Even though the bathtub puffy paint was a big, fat failure, Brooke and I still had fun and she enjoyed it! I also now have another reason for needing a food processor since my blender didn't hack it! So glad our Plan B worked.. we had fun! 

Another puffy paint craft!

After seeing my homemade puffy paint post, my friend Jessica told me about another way to do a homemade puffy paint activity with the kiddos that she uses with her first graders. She said it was much easier than the one we did! So.. I had to try it! Tons of fun and yes, a little easier, and plenty messy!

We did this right after nap time and SOMEONE woke up on the wrong side of the crib. I won't tell you who.. I'm pretty sure you can figure it out on your own!

Supplies needed:
Shaving Cream
Liquid glue
Food coloring
containers to mix the "paint" in (I used a metal muffin tin from the dollar store)
something to paint with (I used foam brushes)

1. Using a half and half mixture, squeeze some glue into each mixing container. One bottle of glue gave me a good amount of three different colors. Oh, and UNSCREW the lid of the glue and squeeze. Don't try to fill the container by squeezing the glue through the little pointy tip you unscrew. Not that I initially tried that. No way, not me.

2. Pick your colors and squeeze some drops into the glue. However much or little you want. The more coloring, the darker or more vibrant the color will be, obviously.

3. Use your brush and stir the glue and coloring together so that it incorporates well.

 4. Add a big 'ole dollop of shaving cream, roughly the same amount as your glue. Although really how does one measure such a thing? Glue is a dense liquid and then the shaving cream is a puff of fluff. I really don't think this matters much. Squirt away! :)

5. Use your brush and mix, mix, mix.I scooped half of it out and put it in another container so it was more manageable.

6. Mix up the other colors the same way.

I love the smell of shaving cream. I also love that it reminds me of Reddi Whip. Reddi Whip pretty much makes the world go 'round. I want some Reddi Whip.

Clue #1.

 

Well, at least she is quite excited to get started!!

This looks cool. All tie dyed looking and stuff.

Ready. Set. GO!

I have made super cute aprons for both kids, and they wear them for cooking/baking with me... but I don't want them to get ruined, so I picked up these cheapies from the dollar store as well! 

I mixed red and blue (on the left) to get a purple....ish color. Yellow and blue on the right gave me green.. duh! I just wanted to see how it looked! 

Brooke's masterpiece!

 Clue #2.

I LOVE this!

Mr. Ben is quite the little artist!

This was a total hit! Another keeper art project! You can do this with plain white glue and shaving cream, with no coloring added on black or blue paper for snow men and snow in the winter! :)

You will need to set your papers aside to dry for a full 24 hours. The next day they look pretty much the same - they are puffy, but dry! :)