We were faced with another wet day on Tuesday, the first official day of our half term holiday, so I got around to making up some bath paint for the kids to enjoy. I've been meaning to do this for a while and as we skipped bath time on Monday due to a late pub supper, I had the perfect excuse!
I've seen many "recipes" on the web for this so I made one I vaguely recalled using clear bubble bath and cornflour, along with some food colouring. I kept the food colouring to a minimum, just in case it stained anything but it was fine - in fact, the colours were a little muted so I would probably used some more next time.
I used 1 cup of bubble bath (or body wash) - just make sure it is clear or the colour won't work as well. Add around 2-3 tbsp cornflour, or enough to thicken it up to your desired consistency. Separate the mixture at this point, and add a few drops of food colouring to the different pots.
Add two paintbrushes and some eager children then let loose on the bath tiles!
They loved it, drawing pictures and writing letters on the walls. Plus they had just as much fun washing it off the walls with the shower afterwards!
I've seen this a few times on Blogs and saw it again recently on Bath Activities for Kids, and was reminded what a great idea it was. My two loved this when I bought it in for them in the bath, and begged me to make more right away for the next night!
Our bath letters are too big to use for this so I used our magnetic fridge magnet ones. Find a small (plastic) toy and spell it out using the letters. Put it all into a tuppaware, fill with water and stick it in the freezer overnight.
The next night, I took the ice blocks out of the tuppaware and gave one to each of them. They loved the feel of the cold ice, and enjoyed melting them in the warm water bit by bit...one letter would come off then they would swish the block round in the water to release the next letter.
As my letters were magnetic, I bought up two flan tins to stick the letters onto.
Once all the letters and the toy were released from the ice block, I helped DD spell her word out while DS managed his on his own.
The finished product...words proudly spelled out with accompanying toy!
