Messy play

I have blogged about sensory Baths before. I was trying to teach Ava her colors and decided to try using sensory baths. It worked great. I colored the water put up some shapes with foam and together we went through her toys to find the color of the day. This was the red one. It's not a great picture, but she loved it. Heck I loved it too. 

you can't see it, but there is a rocket bath fizz making the water yellow and blue. Ava thought it was so funny, but would not get in, until it was dissolved. You can get it at lush. A store at City Creek Center. 

 Bryce gets credit for this one. Corn starch and water, classic. 

 We love painting, especially finger painting. 

 This ones we actually started out as marbles painting. you need

1 small box, a shoe box lid works great.

different sized marbles

paint 

and white paper

You put the paper in the box, add drops of paint to the paper, drop the marbles in and shake the box.

After a few minutes of doing this Ava put her hands down and got to work. 

 Wax painting. for this one you will need 

white paper

a muffin tin

cupcake liners

broken crayons.

I took all of Ava's broken crayons and put each color in a tin. I melted them in the oven. Once they were not  burning hot and just warm. We put are fingers in and painted away. This activity was a little frustrating because the wax kept drying up, so I had to remelt it a few times. I think using more crayon per a muffin tin might help with this. It was fun and Ava enjoyed it, 

We were up visiting Bryce's parents and went out to help Julie in the garden. The water was turned on mud was made so we played. It was fun and messy. 

 Later that night, we made a fort using the ping pong ball table. We read stories and giggled. Aunt Haley joined us when she got there. Oh and we are kissing in this picture, 

 I babysit some kids on Wednesdays. I usually try and so some kind of craft. Ava and S really like Lady Bugs, so I went to pinterest and got some ideas and we created them. 

I keep seeing button trees on pinterest and decided it would be a good one for the girls.

you will need 

buttons (I just used some I have had for a while)

white paper and 

glue (we used elmer's glue) 

Ava didn't really care for the activity but little miss S and O loved the activity as did my little sis. 

This was a great activity to talk about colors, textures, shapes and sizes.

I also have lots of buttons and have enjoys putting them in the muffin tins and sorting them and making a mess. Don't have a picture of that though,