i said, "YES! we are GREAT at making messes and coincidentally . . . Clorox Clean-UpÆ is my favorite cleaning product!"
have you been there?
it is FULL of ideas for crafts or cooking or even science experiments to get messy with kids!
i make crafts with my kids quite often and i LOVE to see them get really into their project no matter how messy it gets!
at the Recipe for Fun site i found an idea for using collage and color together to make a color wheel!
we got busy on the mess making.
.jpg)
i got out our stack of old magazines and began ripping out anything that was mostly one color.
we made a big pile of magazine pictures.
i cut a large circle from a piece of poster board and drew lines diving the circle into six equal sections.
i wrote the names of the colors in rainbow order on the wheel to know where to put each scrap.
then we started gluing down our pictures.
.jpg)
i came across rubber cement at the grocery store and wondered if my girls had ever used it.
i knew i had never purchased it, so i got some.
my daughter was very curious!
"WHAT is this?!" she asked in a doubtful tone.
then i showed her how it had a brush INSIDE, and she was excited to use it.
.jpg)
we also used a paint brush dipped in the glue bottle so we could all work at the same time.
it's just like painting but you paint with glue.
.jpg)
layering and layering . . . picture after picture . . . overlapping until there are no white spaces at all.
.jpg)
.jpg)
we almost always make our crafts at this table.
i painted it white almost 10 years ago.
my kids use everything on it!
and it always comes back to white with Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner.
.jpg)
i was out of town recently, and when i came home i noticed my 10 year old had organized this coca-cola crate
with our art supplies by color!
how cute is that?! i love it! we like to do lots of things around here in rainbow order.
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
it was coming along quite nicely at this point.
there was glue all over our hands and the table!
.jpg)
well…every Recipe For Fun needs a Recipe For Clean.
Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner combines a cleaner and the disinfecting power of Clorox Bleach letting you spray away messy play. It removes tough stains as well as the germs you can't see, leaving your home sparkling clean and ready for the next recipe.
.jpg)
but today my youngest surprised me by helping out!
she loves to use spray bottles and paper towels.
.jpg)
when she saw the marker and glue wipe right off she said, "this is going great!".jpg)
with my daughter's help, a trash bag & Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner, the room was cleaner than when we started!
.jpg)
.jpg)
do you like getting messy and creative with your kids?
tell me about it in the comments and be entered to win one of ten $100 Visa gift card s!
CloroxÆ and Clean-UpÆ are registered trademarks of The Clorox Company.
Trae Kendrick - A mess has never deterred my boys and me. The messier the better! They’ve grown up quite a bit, and now our messes come from gutting a deer or breasting out dove. Still tons of fun!
mollie - love the color wheel
katie - Hey Meg! Great post. It makes me want to go clean something. ( I don’t have that feeling too often…)
What r u using for photo editing now that picasa shut down?
I love your blog!!
Jenna@CallHerHappy - My daughter is 10 months old, and we love to make messes. I give her avocados, prunes and sweet potatoes in her high chair and let her paint with them! It mostly goes in her hair 🙂
Jenna
callherhappy.com
Carolyn W - I like to move my kids’ table outside when we do art, so we can get as messy as we want without me worrying that they will drop something on the carpet! And I actually do use Clorox wipes when we’re done to clean off the table. 🙂
Heather D - I don’t have kids, but I like to play and get messy with my nieces and nephews. And I learned from my mama that Clorox Clean-up is the best!
Lindsay - we painted with shaving cream and that was pretty messy…i actually used another type of clorox product to clean it all up (the one that you can spray even on a baby’s highchair and not have to wipe it off with water…). thanks for the chance!
tiffany gardner - Yes! I’m a big fan too! My mom always said…mess was my middle name. I have now passed that on to my children!!!!
Amber - We love this stuff! Thanks for the opportunity Clorox and Meg!
Diane Hutchings - I am a pretty messy crafter myself!
Bethany - It hasn’t been a day if we haven’t made at least one huge mess!
Kimmie - My kiddos love to get messy. We recently painted flower pots and little bird houses at teacher gifts. They loved it!
Kattastik.wordpress.com - I do love messy crafts with my kids! But my kids, all boys, can’t stand to get their hands messy! Makes no sense, but it’s true.
Annie - My 6 year old daughter is always begging to do a messy craft! The messier the better!
Courtne Huffman - We also love to craft and create at our house. And, of course, clean-up usually ends up with just me. 🙂
Holly - We love to create at our house also and I use a ton of the clorox clean up!