Comments on: Rainy days and indoor play http://littlegreenhouse.blogsome.com/2006/11/26/rainy-days-and-indoor-play/ Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Melanie Rimmer http://littlegreenhouse.blogsome.com/2006/11/26/rainy-days-and-indoor-play/#comment-85 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:00:15 +0000 http://littlegreenhouse.blogsome.com/2006/11/26/rainy-days-and-indoor-play/#comment-85 Now me, I think painting is an outdoor activity. The water ends up on the floor anyway and the paint ends up on the walls. But on a hot sunny day strip the kids naked and give them a range of brushes (inlcuding whitewashing brushes, pastry brushes, anything) and mixing bowls full of paint and let them loose on 20' of unrolled lining paper. Magic. Squeezy bottles, old roll-on-deodorants and plant misters full of poster paint are also fun for a change. Then when they're finished hose 'em all off before you allow them back indoors. Baking, that's an indoor activity. Or lego. Or snakes&ladders. But not anything involving paint. Now me, I think painting is an outdoor activity. The water ends up on the floor anyway and the paint ends up on the walls. But on a hot sunny day strip the kids naked and give them a range of brushes (inlcuding whitewashing brushes, pastry brushes, anything) and mixing bowls full of paint and let them loose on 20′ of unrolled lining paper. Magic. Squeezy bottles, old roll-on-deodorants and plant misters full of poster paint are also fun for a change. Then when they’re finished hose ‘em all off before you allow them back indoors.

Baking, that’s an indoor activity. Or lego. Or snakes&ladders. But not anything involving paint.

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