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Cars, Cars, Cars, and Some Paint

Kids day is on Wednesday, usually, but this Wednesday Athena was not home. 
I still wanted to have kids day and did a project I knew Spencer would really enjoy. 

Painting With Cars! 

Spencer picked his colors and lined up his cars. 
He didn't know what to do with the first one, just kept looking at me so I drove the first one down the paper. 
Of course he caught on quick! 
Although he did not want to pick a few cars to paint with, he wanted to use all of them and line them up at the bottom of the paper. 
He ran out of room to paint so I added another paper.  
He moved every car (almost) onto the other paper! 
With no more room he found the best way to keep painting was to roll the cars in the paint. 


The art work under the play! 

Now that the cars were all covered in paint they needed a bath. 
I was going to set up a sensory sink for Spence to clean his cars but decided on the bath because there were so many and Spencer was feeling kinda icky and wanted a bath. 

We lined up all of the cars for a wash. 


With Spring in the air it was time for a new jacket! 
We found this monster jacket at Target for $12.00 (and some change)  
My little dragon turned my little monster :)


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  1. LiferApril 12, 2013 at 9:28 PM

    great job! we love painting! will try painting with cars too :)

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    1. UnknownApril 15, 2013 at 1:35 AM

      Thank you :)
      When I first saw it I knew it would be something he loved!

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