Messy Summer Fun... Week 5.... the finale...

This week was our Messy Summer Fun Finale....and we had 17 kids...17!!!! So Messy...So Fun!!! We did Toilet Paper Mache... I did this last year with Ryleigh and thought...hmmm.. so messy...perfect for a ton of kids... :-)

I covered plastic cups with plastic wrap...and then had the kids (moms) dip toilet paper into a glue/water solution I made... then stick them on the cups...The older kids (ages 4 and up) caught on to this project and were able to do it themselves (wanting to stick their hands into the goo was a different matter)....

The younger kids (ages 14 months- 3) had a different reaction...they were either SO into it...or really appalled at the thought... Can you guess how Braeden felt about it?

Appalled....

Ryleigh loved it...

Since the shaving cream balloons were such a big hit from earlier this summer, I decided to do them again... and water balloons...

Still a kid favorite!

I think pretty much all the kids were covered...

I'm not sure exactly how this happened... but I have an idea... Sorry Kara!!! :-)

For the water activity/ gross motor skills... we set up a bounce house with a water slide...

How many kids can you fit in one of these?

The water-slide was a fun way to end the messy summer...

The water slide resembled sprinklers too much...so Braeden watched from the top of the club house..

Ending the day with Popsicles...

Hopefully I haven't completely scared away the mommies and they will come back next summer!

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To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; Mom 2 lil Posh Divas; Beneath the Rowan Tree and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.

stART- Warthogs Paint - Toilet Paper Mache

A story + art = a great stART!

This week for our stART project we read Warthogs Paint...which is very colorful..and very messy...well not literally because it is a book...the Warthogs have fun mixing colors...for our project Ryleigh made a Toilet Paper Mache (vase?)..also very colorful...and not really as messy as I anticipated it being...

So...Ryleigh has been potty -trained for a whole week now...and that is purely coincidental to the project...but I was trying to come up with something different to do...and thought...perhaps you could use toilet paper to mache ? ...instead of newspaper...turns out you can...and there are even instructions on the internet.... I didn't follow them really well...but I got the gist...

Step one is to spray whatever you are using as your mold with a pam like substance...I used olive oil spray...then I covered it in plastic wrap...
Step two is to mix toilet paper (we used the 2-ply charmin) and some water and glue...then goop it together with your hands until you think it might stick...
Step three...apply mixture to mold...let dry until no longer sticky (it took about 24 hours...and did not feel hard to the touch... it was still soft...)
Step four- paint...then let dry
Step five- gently slide the mache from the plastic wrap/mold (it should come right off)

Ryleigh adding toilet paper into some water...

Then adding some more glue... can you ever really have enough? .....

"gooping" it on the mold....

Braeden...completely upset...not because Mommy is taking pictures...
but because sister is not playing with him... "how long is this project going to take?"

Beginning to paint the dried project... (24 hours later)

Painting....

looking for white spots to paint...

The finished project....a vase? (maybe...or maybe a holder of sorts)...
either way this project was WAY less messy and much easier than I thought it was going to be... I think we will mache again...

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