Painting Outside

Rylee is in love with anything artsy or crafty.  She loves to stick stickers on paper, paint, color, draw, cut with scissors, glue, play with play-doh and anything else involving art supplies.

 

Last week we decided to try painting outside.  I pinned a piece of paper to a box and let her go at it.  She loved every moment of it.  We have no spill paint cups from discount school supplies and matching paint brushes.  We also use crayola kids paint as it is the best paint out there!  So easy to clean up and never stains.

 

I am usually very stingent about keeping the right paint brush in the right cup and not letting her mix the colors in the paint cups.  However on this day, we let loose.  I opened all the cups and let her go.  She had so much fun, and I must say she did fairly well at keeping the colors seperate.

Over the summer I realized we hadn’t done many crafty/arty projects other then just coloring and drawing.  We are trying to change that in preparation for the long winter that is to come.

Fun at the Park

Last week we spent some time at the park.  It had cooled down and we were able to get outside a little.  These are just snap shots from our point and shoot camera Nothing Fancy. Just Rylee having fun!

 

Rylee kept trying to go up the slide.  It didn’t work so well for her.  She never made it very far.

This bouncy springy thingy was her favorite.  She love to climb on it and make it rock.

 

She also like the whale rocker and the slide (even while going on it the correct way).

She also loved to jump off the ledge and back onto it.  She is getting really good at jumping and it amazes me how well she does it.

The Beach

 

Or as close to the beach as we will get any time soon.  Here are some pictures from our family reunion.  We held it at a “resort” off of the river.  Again, as close to a resort as we are going to get.  It was so humid where are cabins were so we ventured down to the beach to play.  The water was beautiful and so was the sand.  Rylee loved playing in it.  I think it’s one of the first time she’s played in real sand.  We have a sand table but it has play sand from a bag in it and it’s blue.  So not real sand.  But she really did enjoy the time outside at the river.

Anways, enough rambling.  We were at the beach with my sister and her kids so here are the pictures from the beach.

 

One Pooped Baby

 

This is what our night treatments have looked like a lot this summer.  We have one pooped baby.

Yummy First!

 

It is officially Corn on the Cob season here.  We love this stuff.  Normally we cut the corn off the cob for Rylee, but this year we just gave her it whole and she is a pro.  She eats every little piece.  Didn’t take her too long to master this task.  And she asks for more.  I have found it’s the perfect CF veggie.  A little corn, a ton of butter and a big dash of salt.  Yummo!

 

Rylee’s Rainbow

 

We love that time of year when school supplies come out (which just happens to be the beginning of July now).  The supplies are on major discount at all of the stores – markers for a dollar, crayons and glue for 25 cents and even watercolors are on sale for 92 cents.  It’s amazing. 

I had picked up 2 new sets of watercolors hoping to introduce Rylee to them.  She has never painted with more then one color of paint before and so I knew I would need to sit with her and teach her the concept of water, paint, paper, repeat…water, paint, paper, repeat.

To my amazement, she did wonderful.  She didn’t get to much paint anywhere but on her paper. And she loved every minute of painting.

She was so suprised when she swooshed her paintbrush across the paper.  Such beautiful colors.  

I have learned a few tips about watercolors while working at daycare in the past. 

The first is that I only buy the “ROSEART” brand watercolors.  They are sooooooo bright and vibrant on the pictures.  I love that look.  We have tried other brands, but seem to like the Roseart Brand the best.  I am truely stating my own opinion here, and was not paid to say that. :)

The second tip is that I always take a syringe of water and add a little water to each pod of paint.  This helps the youngest of painters to understand the concept of “Painting” and also to not allow the kids to dig up all the dry paint from the pods.  The water soaks right into the paint color and it becomes more of a watery paint instead of a dry paint with wet paint brush.  This also adds to the brightness of the color once applied to the paper.

I must say that we will be painting with watercolors again and soon.  She loved it so much.  She asks for it frequently, but of course it’s always on our way out.  Maybe they will come out today since it is looking pretty dreary out today!

My Pretty Girl!