I’m not afraid of a mess. I love kid art, but only when it is not stupid cutesy crafts that PB doesn’t want to do anyway and never turn out right. I prefer open-ended art. It usually doesn’t end up looking spectacular, but is such a better process. I get to see my kid experiment and be creative. It is much easier to involve him in these sort of projects too.

I mixed paint, water and glue in glue bottles. It started off on paper, but we quickly had to pull out the cardboard. And the picture looks messy, but it only took 10 minutes to clean up.

This is more glue paint. But now it is blood, and there are bandages for the ‘cuts’. We were talking about first aid, hence the project.

Freehand painting. We use tempura paint, and it cleans up nicely.