Cosmic Painting!

Helloooooo, peeps, and, HAPPY FRIYAY!

Today marked what might be our last rainy day after more than a week of just really lovely showers and occasional thunderstorms and cooler temperatures and the kind of Fall-type gloom that is very atypical for SA in July.

And I’ve been digging it.

BIG time.

The dreariness has made it soooooo easy to hang out indoors and spend lovely quality time together, doing simple but fun activities that summer makes possible, because we have bit more time.

We have almost two weeks before our next big commitment, and we’re going to do our best to continue to just really live up this change of pace.

But with sun, next week.

And perhaps some swimming again. ;)

Now.

If you’ll recall from the last post, we wrote down a handful of fun activity ideas and stowed them away in balloons we’ve been popping. One each day.

Wednesday was a movie.

Thursday was playing with slime.

And today was inflating the bouncy house. 

But. 

The kiddos ended up a bit too lazy to clean the playroom to make room for the bouncy house and requested a project instead, tehe.

And this Mama was more than happy to oblige—especially considering I’ve been deep in the weeds of cleaning out the craft closet this week, so I’m well aware of all the projects we currently have, woohoo.

For today, I busted out one of our more involved (read: messy) painting projects that turned out to be a major hit with my crazies. Another thumbs-up for this line of Tarjay projects:

It came with coolio, thin paint (perfect for dripping as they tilted their canvases), and I gotta give the kit props for also including a plastic covering for the table that made containment and clean-up SO much easier.

I loved the swirled style of the paint, too. Perfect for the galaxy effect we were trying to achieve.



I basically just moved the chairs out of the way, opened the paints, gave a countdown and let them go NUTS. :)









We were very abstract for this round, hehe.



I was getting very Pollock vibes with Chica’s at this stage…

Chicklet was a master and the drop and tilt. The more paint the better!







In the end, after a ton of layers and a ton of tilting, we added the included glitter for a true “cosmic” effect.



And I just ADORE these close-up pics of each kiddo’s amazing, celestial creation. :)

Definitely a winning painting project on a rainy Friyay.

Looking forward to a lovely, LOW-KEY weekend with not much at all on our agenda.

Over and out. 

P.S. A couple pics of my slime babies from yesterday. :)