Dear Reader,
Today for the toddlers I decided to do ice painting. I have been wanting to try this for a while, I just haven’t gotten to it until today. Life has been crazy, and since I didn’t have an ice maker it does require some prep work for me.
The Girls really loved it, but it ended a little too soon for all of us. Perhaps next time I will try to thicken the “paint”. Another option is to have one for each of my kiddos and paint for each of them too, so more stuff.
The problem I have with thickening the “paint” is that I wanted an easy cleanup and water and food coloring seemed to be the best for that, though some of the colors were not very bright, so perhaps I need to add something to it.
As I said earlier I don’t have an ice maker, so I had to make the ice myself. This also meant limited storage for the ice. If you wanted to spend money I guess you could buy a bag of ice, but I just wanted to do something easy.
For the paint I did water and food coloring. The red worked the best, as it usually does. Next time I will add more color for the others to make them brighter and maybe some flour to make it thicker? Flour would also help bring out the color as well, but it would not be as easy to clean up if they spilled on the ground.
If you have any ideas let me know, and we will be glad to try them out. Or if you tried a variation and want to share your success be sure to let us know! We would love to hear from you.
