Week Five: Valentines!

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so this week we made valentines!

I love to paint with babies. I love it. It is such a giant mess but it is so fun to watch what they create!

Not pictured: Craft paper from the dollar store :)

This Crayola paint is my go-to. It washes off so easily with just water. Frog tape is a must for painting life. I use this stuff all the time! We bought some when we were repainting the basement and I've been hooked ever since. It peels off so clean. It is literally just like the picture on the package--how many products can say that?

O was a great helper. He especially enjoyed the step where we had to bang the roll of tape on the ground 50 or 60 times.

My little helper

Once the craft paper was taped to the floor we got out the paint, ready for action. This is when I decided to change up my game plan and try to do that "love" resist painting. {Tape off the word love and then paint over it, and when you peel up the tape the word remains with paint all around it} In hindsight it totally wasn't necessary, but I'm glad I gave it a whirl.

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I poured the paint straight onto the paper and let O go to town. He was cautiously interested at first. This isn't his first time in recent history painting, and I'm so happy he remembered not to eat it! He didn't even try!

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The painting went well, but he kept getting distracted by the naughty kitty lurking near the bottles of paint. He wanted to "pet" Dewey SO BAD and kept crawling off the paper saying "Dew-eh".

Painting was really fun for all parties involved....until it wasn't anymore. Look at this face! So upset. We called it a day at that point even though the paper wasn't as totally painted as I had imagined. It captures the moment, I say. ;)

Over it. 

Here is the "finished" product, in some poor nighttime lighting. I say "finished" because clearly I'm not sending a giant poster out as a valentine. Stay tuned for the finished valentines after Valentine's day!

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I hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day. I'll be spending mine with two valentines this year.

xoxo
-H