Messy Art Day - Video

Messy art day has been come an Annual Family event.  We love it

It is sponsored by the El Cerrito Co-Op School and they do such an amazing job

Every year is a little different, though they have our favorite staples

It is also very different each year how Holly interacts with the messy art

Each year she is able to do more stuff and tolerate more

This was a fun little area where you got to sling shot paint rags

Its quite a lot to coordinate, finding and holding the paint rag

Getting it placed into the sling shot, pulling back, aiming and letting go

Then it makes a huge splat, and she loves it

Of course everything and everyone gets splattered with paint!

Here in the back is the percussion house.

Tons of pots and pans and everything from paint brushes to spatulas for drum sticks

You can tap and drum on the outside, and you can paint the house

You can also drum inside the house, but that can be a little loud

The back was a little muddy, dirt floor and water for clean up but mud is part of it all

This is shaving cream paint

another fun and messy activity

and hear is Lucian, digging in the mud.  He joined us for the afternoon

Back at the shaving cream some of the kids used there hands

They covered there bodies head to toe with the stuff

At first Holly didn't want to touch it, but used some type of tool

But unlike past years before long it was in her fingers and all over her belly

She definitely had a lot of fun with the messy part this year

Lucian super likes the digging, this was new from last year

Here is Dave helping him out

Holly still over at the Shaving Cream Table

Messier and Messier

Here is Baby Avery he is liking the messy shaving cream too

He was so super cute, about 16 months now

And Holly reflecting on her messiness

She tried to give me a hug, poor thing I said no way

There was a water area where you could clean up, but I think it just made it worse

We decided to head back to the front

Here Holly is in line waiting to do the paint slide

I was across the way waiting for her in line at the human Spirograph

Right when she got to the head of the line they decided to change out the paper

That was kind of cool because she got to be the first one to paint on the clean paper

Here she is getting ready looking for the perfect paint covered ball

She did such a good job patiently waiting while they taped down the paper and got ready for her

Of course she picked pink paint to start off with

Here is Holly, Ball Painting the Slide
http://youtu.be/mMDU5_7brYI

Sh had a blast and came back down to join me for the next event

She actually had a lot of fun watching the other kids

It was a super hot day so she took a break out of the sun

and did another good job waiting.  It was more crowded this year I think

In previous years she was so intrigued with this but wasn't able to work up the courage

I had my fingers crossed that it would be a hit this year

And it was, Holly the Human Spirograph
http://youtu.be/kJia_zgOaWI

She wanted to go slower then the other kids and she wasn't keen on the twisting part

But she went back and forth and she did the paint, and she accomplished it.

She got to use three different colors and then wash up her painting, she had a blast and was proud of herself

Here is another building that you can paint on

They had rollers which Holly liked to practice using

there were also brushes and eventually hands

The day was starting to wind down, it had been super fun

In all this mess it was pretty amazing that Holly noticed this little Rolli Poley

It was so cute, she was super gentle and it crawled around on her arm

Its so special how kids notice the smallest things

Its like the smell the roses thing, for a child everything is magical

Afterwards we all went out to lunch at a breakfast place called Jimmy Bean

It was yummy and the kids were wiggly

Then it was time to go.  Holly wanted to strap Lucian in

A big hug good bye and it was a close to a really fun day!