i said, “YES! we are GREAT at making messes and coincidentally . . . CloroxClean-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.
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.
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.
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.
layering and layering . . . picture after picture . . . overlapping until there are no white spaces at all.
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.
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.
it was coming along quite nicely at this point.
there was glue all over our hands and the table!
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 canít see, leaving your home sparkling clean and ready for the next recipe.
but today my youngest surprised me by helping out!
she loves to use spray bottles and paper towels.
when she saw the marker and glue wipe right off she said, “this is going great!”
with my daughter’s help, a trash bag & Clorox Clean-Up Cleaner, the room was cleaner than when we started!
find the perfect activity for you and your kids to live it up, mess it up and then clean it up at Clorox Clean-Up Recipes for Fun ñ Where Mess Doesnít Matter!
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 cards!
XOXO,
My 2 year old loves to make a mess! If you give her a marker, she’ll draw all over herself.
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I love crafting with my children and it is nice that Clorox helps clean up whatever we start! Love the wipes especially!
i love to use these after we do crafts!!! to clean up all the mess!! 🙂
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I love anything that helps me clean up quickly!
I used to hate messes but my boys have taught me that messes are fun (as is cleaning up afterwards!)
kids and messes are like peanut butter and jelly. my little one makes a mess out of everything (including peanut butter and jelly!). but we like to be crafty and cook/bake so we accept the mess.
We love to paint and color, but always leave a big mess. julierupert@gmail.com
Even though there aren’t little ones in this house anymore, we do have a dog. And he makes a mess and the Clorox spray does a good job of cleaning up his messes on the floor.
My daughter is only 7 months old, but I know the messes are on the way! Can’t wait to get crafty and messy with her. 🙂
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My kids •love• crafts and creating! Beads, glue, paper, anything…they’ll make something out of it. I love that! Not so much the clean up, but it’s worth it. 🙂
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I love that idea! Messy crafts are always more fun! denisedoez(at)hotmail.com
My child loves arts and crafts! Sometimes he creates a big mess too.
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love this post. my kids love to get messy, me not so much, I am trying. =0) We did a lot more art based, messy stuff this past year and it was fun for all of us. =0)
My kids and I are not afraid of messes when we are crafting! We figure the bigger the mess, the more fun we’ve had!
I do if we have time to clean up properly. 🙂 emmillee(AT)Gmail(dot)com
We love getting messy and crafting, although my kids are getting older now and are not quite as messy anymore 🙂
Love to make crafty messes with my three little grandsons!
My two-year old is just now learning to trace her hand like her big sister.
The marker is all over the perimeter of her hand. She holds her hand up so proudly, LOOK!
Everything we create makes a mess!!!-L
I like to get creative, but I try to minimize the mess as much as I can. Sometimes it is just inevitable!
I love being creative with my kids, but let’s be honest, I hate a big mess! If we make get messy, then we are really good at cleaning up =)
Yes! Messes can be cleaned up memerios and good time last! From glue to goiter to baking to mud pies we are right there! My kids love it!
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My daughter has just learned how to use scissors and glue and boy can she make a mess. We love to do all sorts of crafts around our house, but when it is clean up time we dread it. I would love to go get some of the Clorox spray in making this task faster and easier.
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Finger painting is a really big deal at my house these days!
I like getting creative with my kids but I really hate the messes! I need to work on letting go of the mess!
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I have two boys, so getting messy is a daily occurrence at our house. The mess is the best when we are creating something fun!
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Yes! I definitely like getting messy with my girls. They are now grown and the youngest is 21 and in art school. She’s always borrowing some of the supplies or tools from home that we have accumulated over the years. Her art friends are impressed by the wide variety she comes up with. For the record, we still make messes. Making photo trees for baby and wedding showers, or painting fabric to use in quilting, refinishing a chair we rescued. The list goes on…I won’t bore you.
Great post. Your girls are precious.
It is fun to get messy. Gardening and planting is messy but fun. We also love painting. It is worth the mess :). Thanks!
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I wasn’t crazy about the messes until I saw how much fun my kids were having creating and having messes 🙂
thanks
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