HELP Please! My DCK's Look Like Smurfs!

[Angelsj]

We deliberately painted the children blue last summer. They wanted to be "Na'vi" from the movie. We played the music and sent them home blue. No one was upset by this.

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[daycarediva]

Last week we mixed colors and used transparent plastic tubing to invent ways to get colored water from one bucket to the other, using only the tubes. I used VERY diluted WASHABLE liquid watercolors. For some reason, the green did NOT wash out, but every other color did. It was BAD, looked like it was stained onto their skin and EVERYONE had baths that night. I posted a picture on our business facebook page about the kids 'going green' and the parents all laughed about it.

[CedarCreek]

Sorry, I meant it as funny.

Sorry Sharlan, I was joking and didn't mean to actually question your sanity about SOS pads!

I should have added this:

[Brooksie]

Sorry, I meant it as funny.

Sorry Sharlan, I was joking and didn't mean to actually question your sanity about SOS pads!

I should have added this:

[Heidi]

If you want, send a photo text captioned, "We painted pumpkins! and we're a little bit more colorful than we were when you dropped us off!"

I had a crawler get into brown paint once that didn't fully come off. I texted mom and warned her that he's "Browner than when you dropped him off!" (He's biracial) and she thought it was hysterical.

or how about...we painted pumpkins, and we're all going to be smurfs for Halloween!

[Jack Sprat]

Why not? If they had fun and it isn't toxic, why can't they go home like that?

I am sure their parents will bathe them.

FUN IS messy!


If it's really bad, I've removed paint from the kids before by using make-up remover or the old stand-by Noxzema. Baby oil works too.

Its in my handbook, WE GET DIRTY!!!

[Childminder]

Happens to the best of us. I literally turned my back to the child to answer the door.

[Childminder]

Wow that is huge! No idea how to resize.

[CedarCreek]

Haha!!!

[jenboo]

Tip for next time:
Mix a little soap into the paint before giving it to the children. It rinses right off the children.
Best tip I've ever learned!

[daycare]

Im seeing aliens.......

that is sooooo funny yet frustrating at the same time

[Cradle2crayons]

Is it just me.... Or with some strategic hair play.... The pic a few posts above of the boy...COULD be the alien from avatar...

[melilley]

Happens to the best of us. I literally turned my back to the child to answer the door.

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[melilley]

Tip for next time:
Mix a little soap into the paint before giving it to the children. It rinses right off the children.
Best tip I've ever learned!

I forgot about that trick!

[melilley]

I ended up getting most of the stained paint off, but the parents just laughed when they saw it. My own ds had it on his face too...