Whipped Topping Paint

We are getting ready for a cross country move in less than two weeks, so I've been trying to use up the various foods in our fridge, freezer, and pantry. I came across a container of Trader Joe's House Whip in the freezer and knew that Zel would love to play with it (and eat it, of course!). 

All I did was scoop out the whipped topping into a muffin tin and add food coloring. I let Zel use a silicone basting pastry brush as a paint brush. Instead of regular paper, we used freezer paper so that it wouldn't get mushy and would be easy to clean up. I laid a plastic mat on the ground, taped the freezer paper smooth side down and showed Zel that he could use the brush to paint on it. He liked pointing out the different colors and using the brush to mix the different colors together.

 After painting for a few minutes, he dipped his brush in and asked, "eat?" I gave him the OK and he proceeded to alternate between painting and eating the whipped topping. He thought it was really funny to stick his finger in the whipped topping and lick it off. At first he wanted me to lick the whipped topping off his finger. I showed him that he could use his fingers to paint too. While he was finger painting, I used the brush to write his name and make some shapes. He then took the brush and tried to paint on the shapes while saying the names of the shapes. 

 

 This was a fun, easy activity and a cool, tasty treat!

Bangarang Bath Paint

If you've ever seen the movie Hook then you'll remember the food fight scene. The food doesn't look quite like real food, mostly colorful blobs. While doing my bath paint activity (I got the idea from Having Fun at Home), my husband pointed the similarity out to me. So he named it "Bangarang Bath Paint." 

It was really quite simple. All you need is shaving cream, food coloring, and a muffin tin or some other container.

First, put some shaving cream into each spot in the muffin tin. Then put some food coloring onto each blob of shaving cream and mix each one. You can make a bunch of colors depending on how much food coloring you have. It's just that easy!

Once Zel was in the bath tub, I showed him what the paint was for and then handed him the brush (We just used a regular paint brush). He loved it! What could be more fun than bath time? Making a mess in the bath tub, of course! He would carefully dip the paint brush into the tin but then repeatedly bang the brush against the side of the tub as hard as he could. 

Clean up was very easy. Just use your shower head to rinse off your child and the tub. 

No children or bathtubs were stained in the making of this blog post.