Toddler's painting

[*Efjay*]

Do you know what My kids love. A Bucket of water & paint brush & then go around painting everything (outside of course) they love painting with water.

[smiles4u]

My 22mth old daughter Cendrine & I haven't tried painting as of yet ... But she loves drawing with chalk on the backyard pavement AND drawing with crayons on a huge drawing pad.

Nice big thick crayons at the Warehouse shop for about 69 or 89cents a box !!

Big tub of thick chalk sticks at the reject shop for $1.75 a tub OR a smaller tub of thinner chalks (easier for tiny hands, though might break easier??) at the Bargain Basement shop for about $2.00

*** WHAT PAINTS DO YOU BUY/RECOMMEND FOR TODDLERS TO USE & FROM WHAT SHOP ?? ... WOULD LOVE TO KNOW !!!

[Trish]

I sit my kids outside with crappy out grown shirts on. For DP's Father's Day present a few years bck I got them a canvas each, set them up with the paint stamps you can grab from any $ 2 shop and sponge like brushes along with normal ones. I just put paint on a paint palate for them to use that way, It doesn't matter if the colours got mixed up, it's half the fun. They also get their hands right in there and smear it all around.

The crayola paints are great, made for kids so you know that they are non toxic. And yep a bath or shower afterwards cleans up the stray paint

[Liz]

LOL - FJ, that's what my nephew used to do! Gave nanna's verandah a good wash every now and then!

[Visitor7]

smiles4u - I use the Crayola paints like Trish mentioned. Non toxic water based paints. I have a chalk board/white board set up in the patio for Nina, and I put clip some butchers paper up on it, and let her go for her life. She loves it.

[Rouge]

Some playgroups have a toy club (kinda like scholastic book club) and they sell paint in bulk, the jumbo brushes and pots as well. I have found this paint to be great, its washable just like crayola and its what most Kinder/Playgroup's use. And in bulk (2 ltr containers) its a lot cheaper.