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Free Craft Idea

I happened upon this free craft idea while at a friend’s house. While our children were playing, my friend brought out an arts and crafts box. Inside the box were paints, scissors, paper, old magazines, glue, glitter glue, markers and crayons. Those items right there can keep your toddler busy for quite some time.

When the toddlers said they wanted to paint, we took them over to the tiled area of the house and let them have paper and fingerpaints. Pretty soon, one toddler wanted to paint her legs. That did not bother us, so we let her. Pretty soon, the seocnd toddler wanted to paint her legs and take her clothes off.

Not long after, both children had their clothes off and were happily painting their bellies and giggling. They would paint their belly button, giggle and then shout, “look at me!”

They giggled at the ticklish paint brush and went wild at the attention they got from the other three of us.

At the end, we put both toddlers into the bath and the fun continued as they rubbed slippery soap over the painted parts, splashed in the water and played with toys.

Oh, we got a few paintings out of this, too. One toddler made a ‘belly painting’ by placing her painted belly onto the paper.