So we have finished our Gymboree sessions, and I haven’t gotten round to finding some other classes for Keira to attend.

Mainly because it is getting too tiring for me to take her to do active stuff, and also in one month’s time we will be going to Melbourne, so no point starting anything right? (Says lazy me).

But also my parents are coming to stay with us in 2 weeks time, so plenty of things for Keira to do with gong gong and po po!

In the meantime, I am trying to think of some interesting activities for Keira to do at home. Like finger painting:)

So far she has never really expressed an interest in art. I give her crayons, and she might doodle a few chicken scratches, and that’s it, no more interest. She prefers if I do the drawing… “Mummy, draw Mickey Mouse!… Draw Minnie Mouse…. Draw Daddy!” etc etc and etc….

But since she has never really been exposed to paints before, I thought I should let her try it.

I looked online for some home made finger paint recipes, and found lots to choose from… very easy to make!

This is the recipe I used… everything is edible, so safe for kids, you could even eat it!

Cornstarch Finger Paint

2 cups boiling water
1 and 1/4 cup cold water
1/2 cup cornflour
2 tablespoons unflavored gelatine
blue, red and yellow food coloring

Directions:

1) Stir gelatine into 1/2 cup of cold water and set aside.
2) Mix cornstarch into the rest of the cold water (3/4 cup) and stir until a smooth paste. Slowly pour the boiling water over the paste mixture and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly.
3) Once the mixture becomes bubbly from boiling and clear, remove from heat.
4) Stir in the gelatine mixture.
5) Cool and divide into portions. Add colors to each portion.
6) Keep refrigerated.

So one fine day, Keira and I made our own paints and then did some finger painting

Here’s the paint mixture all cooked and waiting for the colouring to be added in:

Here’s Keira “helping” me stir in the food colouring:

And the finished products!

So bright and colourful! I bought three bottles of food colouring, blue, yellow and red, and then you know la, mix the colours to get green, purple, orange:)

Doing the painting… Keira’s first piece of artwork:)

She enjoyed it while I was painting with her, but once I left to cook dinner, she also lost interest… This girl! She’s so obviously a people person, always needs companionship. Buy anyway, it is a fun activity for me to do with her, and it’s good to give her new experiences hey

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