This activity is an adaptation of our previous mess-free fingerpainting activity. This time we used hair gel and food coloring, in part because I need to buy more paint, and in part because the translucence looks cool and allows you to do goofy stuff like this:
Johnny did eventually figure out how to open the previous bags, so I sealed the bags shut with hot glue. It worked really well, apart from the one time I touched (and immediately melted) the actual bag with the tip of the glue gun.
I was going to do a cool color-mixing activity by putting different colors of food coloring in the bags and letting the kids gradually swirl them together, but both kids insisted that they only wanted green food coloring. Maybe next time…
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You had me at “No Mess.” :) Looks like a lot of fun!
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How funny–we JUST did this with hair conditioner a few days ago! I have a blog post drafted for it :). Great minds think alike!
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maryanne Reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 8:12 am
@Jaimie – great idea to use hair conditioner!
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I love the last picture – it looks like both kids had fun with it.
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that looks like fun! again!
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Hmmmm…….. how long before my kids figure that one out…….
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This looks so fun!
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what fun!
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This does look like a lot of fun! I like the idea of using translucent gel instead of paint, and the idea of mixing colors this way. Looks very cool!
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When my kids were younger, I let them finger paint in the bathtub. It was one of my rare strokes of Mom genius!
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