Saturday, January 29, 2011

Soapy Glass Door Fingerpaint

This idea came from my new kindle ebook, First Art.

It spoke of a magical soapy paint that self-cleaned, and suggested that the children paint it directly onto a glass sliding door. Then, because it's made partly from soap, it washes itself off! Magic!

The actual recipe is for 1/2 cup of liquid tempera paint, and 1tsp of liquid soap. However, we only had powdered tempera paint (similar to this http://www.kidsart.com/store/tempset.html) so I just mixed 1Tbsp of tempera powder to 2Tbsp liquid soap. It worked well, but if you can get the liquid stuff that might work better. We got ours from a stationery store here in PNG, and I was pretty impressed to find even that here!  

As you can see, we invited a friend over to play. They both had an outstanding time!








Cleanup was a little bit tricky without a hose...problematic since we live in an apartment with no backyard! So, we employed a trick we learned from the cleaners and used the fire hose from the stairwell! 

I'm sure I looked quite amusing hauling and pulling to get it up the stairs and out onto the balcony. A few blasts with that cleaned the whole thing up. We then hosed the kids off in the shower, then mopped the floors inside (from them traipsing it all into the house) and it was all done! 

Definitely having another mum around was a massive help, probably wouldn't try this solo. 

Judging from the facebook feedback a lot of people think I need my head read for trying this out, but it really wasn't all that bad. Give it a go! 

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