A trip to the store for washable paints, squirt guns, face paint (for drama), cheap shorts and flip-flops. Dad's old t-shirts, destined for the rag bag will work as wearable paint targets.
They dilute the paint with water in soda bottles rescued from the recycling bin - next time, they will use more paint. Without funnels the squirt guns are tricky to fill, but they figure it out. (Need to put funnels on the list for such occasions). Cardboard pieces are set up as shelters, in theory anyway.
Ready. Set. Go!
Eventually, they escalate to bigger guns, the type that attach a small soda bottle to the high powered squirt gun. They aren't wet enough. Yet.
An afternoon made for memories.
The battle aftermath.
Another idea: the game, Qwirkle
Have you played this game? Good for a variety of ages and abilities - the brilliant and the not so brilliant. I have not managed to win - yet. What category does that put me in? Oh well, the game is fun without a victory. Lots of color and a different look to each game as the blocks are combined in sets of color or shapes. A great game to build creative thinking skills. And have fun.
Amazon has Qwirkle, sometimes Target (not affiliate link, just FYI).
Qwirkle looks like loads of fun. I'll have to look for it.
ReplyDeleteYou're a good Mom to go along with paint wars :)
Key word = washable! I have learned over the years, when they come up with ideas like this, the mess is totally worth the fun they have and the creativity expressed.
DeleteP.S. They also, have learned over the years, to clean up the messes so I don't have to do it.
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