It’s been a few weeks since POD was let loose with anything really messy. The temptation to smother my plaster cast in paint for example would have proved too great.
Today is the most beautifully sunny day, there’s barely a cloud in the sky. The POD Father is busy coating the recently purchased playhouse and our toddler is itching for outdoor entertainment. It’s time to get the paints out.
It’s the best thing in the world watching POD get stuck into something, I love to see her facial expressions. Whether it’s running around the garden or exploring nearby farms and woodland.
She loves the wind blowing in her hair when she’s on her swing, flying backwards down her slide or making pretend food for her dollies in her wooden house.
POD adores getting creative. She nearly exploded with excitement when she was presented with an old sheet, paper and a selection of paints. We toyed with leaf painting but she wanted to decorate a foot first. She takes painting very seriously as you’ll see from the concentrated look on her face.
Having taken a short break painting on paper, her focus was firmly back on painting the other foot.
When POD had finished painting her feet green we chased each other round the garden. We dived in her tent. She swung on her swing – at times she looked like she was in the sky. This from a toddler who was so apprehensive of baby swings until very recently.
Our little green goblin then insisted she help Daddy coat her playhouse.
We love discovering the best places to visit in Surrey but there’s something brilliant about getting creative in your own back garden.
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Charly I love the pictures of POD she has such an intended look when she is busy, its fantastic! I need to get more creative but dread mess (i am a bad mummy)
Thanks for linking up with #magicmoments x
Thanks Jaime – POD has the funniest concentration faces! She absolutely adores getting messy. Using washable paint is essential 🙂
Sounds great! Lovely photos too, she looks like she had so much fun!
Thank you – she absolutely loved it! I think she’s been a bit deprived on the painting front recently 🙂
Lovely to have a day in the garden after all the lovely places you have been to visit recently. I love the green painting on Pod’s feet. Looks like it kept her going for hours. Lovely to hear that your arm is making good progress too. Thank you for linking your green feet fun to Country Kids.
Really nice thanks Fiona – we’re lucky the weather has been so nice. POD would have been happy for hours had she not spotted Daddy coating her house 🙂
Oh, how lovely – POD is uber uber gorgeous. Love that she went for her feet first, and that play house is coming along very nicely – love the green paint! X.
Aww thank you – she’s clearly missed painting! The house all is done now, it’s evergreen with the windows and a couple of other areas a lighter green. It looks awesome 🙂
Green and gorgeous!
Messy and gorgeous *biased* 🙂
Lovely pictures….and a lovely embroidered white top, which I hope survived the green paint!
Thank you Sarah – she had such a good time! The top survived her painting but she did get some of the house paint on it which doesn’t come off 🙂
Ah such fun! We haven’t done an creative child-led stuff for a couple of weeks now, I’ll rectify that now after seeing this! Looks like she had such fun 🙂
You so should – POD loved it. Messy but great fun 🙂