Homemade bath paints for kids

My little girl (who I have always called Bundle) loves to paint, but does not like to finger paint because she doesn’t like to get dirty. How a child who loves to play in the dirt does not like to play with finger paint, is beyond me, but she much prefers to use a paintbrush. And she always has. She also love the water and her baths. When I saw the idea for bath paints here we got right on that project. I mixed shaving cream (I used Skintimate Shave Gel because it was what I had on hand) and food coloring together and bath paint was born. Bundle painted for 30 minutes in the tub the first night and just loved it! We had to add more water to keep the tub warm. The second night she painted for 45 minutes and I let the water cool in hopes I could coax her out of the tub that way, but she was having too much fun to even mind the temperature of the water!

Crazy hair, optional

We put lids on the containers to use the bath paint again and although the consistency of the paint had changed, it still worked beautifully days later. Here’s my tip: simply rinse the paint off before it dries onto the tub. I rinsed it off while the water is draining, then pulled my Bundle out of the empty tub (she insists on staying in until ALL the water is out) and wrap her up “Like a Bundle” in her towel.

Daddy with our Bundle

~Angela

 

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