Rainy Day Water Colors

This morning we woke up to rain. It was a gloomy day, looking like it wasn't going to let up for a while. So, what can Mommy and Canaan do all day inside?? Hooray for Mommy! She bought paints last week to try out. So, we finally had an excuse to break them out and give them a test run!

Thankfully (at the last minute), I remembered it might be a good idea to strip Canaan down before venturing too far into the project. We practiced WCP: Water, Color, Paper. Put the brush in the water, then in a (preferably one) Color, then onto the Paper. It worked sometimes, but then sometimes he got messed up in the excitement of it all and it went from the color to the water and then onto the paper. But I remember that being normal from my teaching Bible class days. Overall, he seemed to have fun. He painted on blank pieces of paper first; after he started getting a bit bored with that, I pulled out the papers on which I had drawn some of this favorite things: cars, trucks, and tractors. He really liked painting over those and wanted to paint and paint and paint over again each vehicle. I quickly drew a few more vehicles and a barn scene (of which he wasn't interested). When I put one paper up, he would say, "See truck. See choo-choo." I would show him they were just on the table and encouraged him to paint his other pictures. At one point, he did get a bit distracted when he got some paint on his fingers. But, I was able to distract him from that a few times and he was able to get back to painting. Afterwards, of course, we had a clean-up bath!
It was fun. Canaan really seemed to like it. He even liked holding the finished products when they were dry. I think he was proud of what he did! And Mommy had fun and was proud too!