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Lily was thrilled to discover that you can “paint” on construction paper with icicles! The paper is fairly porous, so the water shows up right away, then dries so you can paint all over again!
This was a great distraction from the virus she was battling, and she surprised me by making some pretty neat observations about her icicle:
It was so much fun that we decided to do it again with Johnny when he got home from preschool the next day! Lily showed him what to do:
Emma was very disappointed to discover that she had been left out of icicle painting, so we’ll be repeating this activity the next time we have icicles hanging from our roof!
Do you have any fun icicle activities? We’ve also used icicles to paint with Kool-Aid!
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Fun idea!!!! I’ll have to remember this when it gets cold and icy again.
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How fun to see Lily in action. She is very talkative :)
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maryanne Reply:
January 26th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Lily is definitely my “talker” =)
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Great idea! I love it. Now … to find some icicles!
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I love your site! The video was adorable! I’ve never had my kids do that before, but I know they’d like to. Hopefully we’ll get some icicles this year.
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What an imaginative idea! I can’t wait to try this. Now if only we could get Jack Frost to visit our house…
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GENIUS! I just wish we had some icicles!
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What a great idea! I’d love for you to link up and share: http://tutusandteaparties.blogspot.com/2012/01/pinteresting-party-number-twenty-three.html
I’ll be giving this one a pin!
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Couldn’t wait to see this one – what a fantastic ideas : )
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what a great idea! wish it was cold enough here to do this! we might need to make our own in the freezer :)
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Cute idea! Sorry Lily was sick. Is she any better now?
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 7:22 am
Lily’s better, but now Johnny has it…
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Fabulous! I love how observant your official cookie taster is, and how clear her speech is as well! :) She is just darling. What a great activity and ideal virus distraction. Hope she’s all better now.
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 7:22 am
It’s really nice that her speech is so clear! She is all better now – it’s Johnny’s turn =)
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January 27th, 2012 at 7:59 am
I hope Johnny gets well soon. Maybe your house will grow more icicles to distract him…
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 8:00 am
:D
Thanks, Elisa!
Oh, and another comment just to say, I love your new hand-drawn social networking icons!!
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 8:00 am
Thank you!!!
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How fun! It reminds me of those boards or mats you can paint with a water “marker.” My kids loved those when they were younger.
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 8:34 am
Same idea, yes! My kids love those, too =)
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I forgot to comment here yesterday.
My boys and I enjoyed being taught by Lily all about icicles, too cute!! :)
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:24 am
I loved her descriptions =)
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Awww, that’s so cute, I loved the video.
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 10:23 am
I couldn’t resist posting, she was so adorable =)
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Oh, if only it would snow….
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maryanne Reply:
January 27th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
I can’t believe how mild this winter has been!
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What a special treat to hear you and Lily. I have loved hearing both of you. Lily speaks so clearly and what a delight she is (Just as I imagined).
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How fun! My kids and I brought in an icicle to see how long it took to melt. I never thought of “painting” with an icicle.
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Love this idea!
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due to global warming, we’ll have to put this project off indefinitely ;) Seriously, we’ve had about an inch of snow all winter! Although, I guess we could make icicles in the freezer??
We often paint with just water on construction paper and then we let the paper dry and reuse it the next day!
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maryanne Reply:
February 2nd, 2012 at 9:32 am
We haven’t had icicles since! I was thinking we should pull out the paintbrushes and just paint with them – slightly messier but very fun!
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I LOVE this idea! Older kids could write words with them! We’ll have to try it IF we get snow this winter!
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Great idea! This is my first time hearing about painting with icicles. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we don’t have any icicles here.
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Very nice. Wish we had icicles here to paint with.
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