painting

yesterday, for the first time,

little sister did some painting.

she loved it, her preferred method

being to keep the paint carton

on top of her canvas while she worked.

as you can see by the second last photo,

she was devastated when i took the brush away.

big sister has started experimenting with colours

and was describing what was happening

when she mixed certain colours together.

her current preference if for no white bits

to be left on her canvas at all.

when we'd finished,

the girls were so filthy with paint

that i decided to send them outside

for some water-play in the afternoon sun -

and when i came back 10 minutes later,

their hands were all clean! hooray!