Messy Play Day

It's a little out of character, but I've not been feeling like being out and about this week. As a result, we spent the day at home. We dabbled in some paint/messy play; we dipped some marbles in paint, put some paper on a tray and dropped the marbles in.

The marbles made lovely tracks across the paper as the children manipulated the tray this way and that. 

We extended the play and eventually switched to toy cars on paper... And the paper evolved to using the slide as our canvas.

You can probably guess that clean up took awhile. I filled the tray with water, added a little dish soap and gave the children an old toothbrush each to play "car wash".

The washable paint washed out easily with a hose and a wet towel. Our little man loves that pikachu tee so fingers crossed the paint washes out of it too.

I'm soaking some dried chickpeas in a bowl overnight to make hummus for dinner tomorrow. We plan to cobble together some pita bread to go with it too. Working up to more creative ideas for meatless Fridays.