Painting - Half-term war-zone

[MrsMarigold]

My children love it I have it with untold passion, I just hate it and feel really low at the state of things - everything is a huge brown mess. They are two and three and mix the paints and I'm here in my dressing gown and the bloody dishwasher broke last week and it's just chaotic. I've washed all the dishes but they are everywhere.

I'm confused - aren't they too young to be at school/have half-term?

Oh, and don't do painting if it is stressing you out this much.

Have you tried the aqua doodle stuff?

Or the Crayola washable pens and paints do work (i.e. they paint and they are washable).

The childminder and nursery are shut, I know it seems weedy now but not having the dishwasher is doing my head in.

can you use felts or those paints that you roll onto paper or water colour paints for kids. lot less messy

Get paint, put two colours into ziplock bag, not loads, enough to cover the bag when flat quite thinly. zip shut and tape all corners. Put into another ziplock bag and repeat. The larger the better.

Give to kids, they can squish and squidge the colours together, use end of a brush to 'write' and no mess at the end.