Puffy Paint Poppies

I now have mainly very young children in my care during the day, which means that most of my celebration planning is now 'meaningless' - in that the children are oblivious to what we are celebrating and why.  However I feel that it is nice to tie in our activities to the celebration if possible.

Had I had older children in my care we would have been doing lots of talking and activities leading up to Remembrance Sunday, Albie is currently very interested in it and we have been doing lots of talking about it and looking at old photos from World Wars 1 and 2.

I decided today that we could do a painting activity as we haven't painted for a few weeks.  As E is 9 months old most things go in her mouth, so I decided to repeat an activity that we haven't done for a while - painting with home made puffy paint, which is 100% edible!  To tie the activity in with Remembrance Sunday (very loosely) I coloured the paint red and green - the same colours as the poppies.

The first thing that E did was suck on the paint brush!  Although the paint is edible, I don't imagine that it is tasty, so after the first time, E didn't attempt to taste the paint again!  E then had lots of fun squishing the paint over the paper.

Once E had finished her masterpiece I microwaved it for a few seconds to make it puff up - however as she had smeared the paint on on the paper it wasn't quite thick enough to puff up, so it just became hard and flaky - yay, I invented flaky paint, I just need to think of a use for it now!!!!

Just look at that smile, E does make me laugh!