We love to read and love to do art & are participating in Michelle’s
st+ART activities found in her blog, A Mommy’s Adventures, with the book,
My Purple Toes, by Blair Hahn.
My Purple Toes is about a Dad who decides to be silly and enjoy being different by painting his toes purple . He then discusses the reactions of his family members (embarrassment and giggles) to his purple toes and the fun places his toes get to go wiggle.
We traced our toes on papers and then colored in our feet with crayon. And then to be ultra-silly, we fingerpainted our papers with our
shaving cream fingerpaint recipe using pink and blue paint (making purple). Just like the Dad in the story liked feeling the grass wiggle between his purple toes, our kids had fun wiggling their toes in finger paint. I will say that this is a one-on-one activity. We had purple paint all over our kitchen floor by the time they were done!
And of course, after reading a book about how a Dad painted his nails, we couldn’t end the day without painting our own! Too bad we don’t have any purple nail polish! Quirky E enjoyed getting to “work on fine motor skills” as she painted her
toes nails “all by herself”, just like the Dad in our story, she wasn’t embarrassed a bit!
We love to read and love to do art & are participating in Michelle’s st+ART activities found in her blog, A Mommy’s Adventures, with the book, My Purple Toes, by Blair Hahn. My Purple Toes is about a Dad who decides to be silly and enjoy being different by painting his toes purple . He then discusses the reactions of his family members (embarrassment and giggles) to his purple toes and the fun places his toes get to go wiggle.
We traced our toes on papers and then colored in our feet with crayon. And then to be ultra-silly, we fingerpainted our papers with our shaving cream fingerpaint recipe using pink and blue paint (making purple). Just like the Dad in the story liked feeling the grass wiggle between his purple toes, our kids had fun wiggling their toes in finger paint. I will say that this is a one-on-one activity. We had purple paint all over our kitchen floor by the time they were done!
And of course, after reading a book about how a Dad painted his nails, we couldn’t end the day without painting our own! Too bad we don’t have any purple nail polish! Quirky E enjoyed getting to “work on fine motor skills” as she painted her toes nails “all by herself”, just like the Dad in our story, she wasn’t embarrassed a bit!
What a great project!!!
Very cute ideas!
I would love to win this book. I’ve never painted my daughter’s toenails but if I won the book, I might have an excuse to! Coming through from stART
How fun.. I love this idea! Jalyn would probably LOVE doing this 🙂
How fun! My son loves painting with his feets… he would probably want to do this too…
Would LOVE for you to come and link up at my brand new Kids Get Crafty every Wednesday over at Red Ted Art. Current link up is here: http://www.redtedart.com/?p=3056 Link stays open all week!
Hope to “see” you there!
Maggy
Red Ted Art
Looks like a fun book! Thanks.
LOVE this and love her toes the crafts are great!
What a fun idea! Love the color! =)
That book looks adorable! Sign me up for your give-away on this one:)
I would love to win a copy of this book for my kiddies, i love teaching them to be different and to not always follow the norm
plus what kid would not want to hear about a dad painting his toes purple..lol