Friday 27 March 2015

Messy play for beginners - part 1 shaving foam

Ok so after years of parenting I have to admit that I find messy play scary, it stresses me out the mess afterwards then I do not do it for a while as I feel so stressed. So I thought it was time to get over those silly little fears and enjoy some playing with my toddlers and Asti when he wants to get involved.

This week I have started small, we had to wait for son son to have a sleep as he does not like foam and shakes at the sight of it. I had brought a can of cheap shaving foam in the shopping and got together a few little toys that I knew Ami would enjoy playing with. 



The fun bit was spraying it onto the little tray I actually felt like a big kid. Then getting our hands in the foam and making it into little mountains. Ami said it looked like snow and that she liked to whoosh it around. She enjoyed putting the snow into little cups then clearing it away with the trains and cars. She made a robot and put lots of foam on its bottom, She was cracking up. 



The end result most had gone in the playing and the rest of the foam on the table and floor was easily cleaned. A perfect start for easing my way back into messy play.

Look out for more messy plays in the coming weeks (if I feel brave again)

15 comments:

  1. You're much braver than me! I only do messy play outside in old clothes.

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  2. I'm not brave enough to do this in my house - thank goodness for nursery where they could play as messy as they wanted

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  3. Good on you for embracing messy play! Mine are too old for this now - but they create their own mess now ;)

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  4. I'm a bit scared of messy play too but this looks like a great way to do it - easy to clean up!!

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  5. Braver than me. Although the kids play with the shaving foam whilst there in the bath!

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  6. Shaving foam is great for messy play! I tried it with my girls, but bought shaving gel instead! I popped it in the blender and it turned to foam and saved the day :)

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  7. OOh I do love the sound of messy play, im right up for that :o)

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  8. One shakes at the sight of it and the other goes in elbow deep! haha

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  9. We love playing with shaving foam and we will be playing musical splatues with it for Isaacs birthday

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  10. That does look like fun. Wouldn't fancy the cleaning up though :)

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  11. I always avoided messy play too.

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  12. How much fun does that look? I like the feel of shaving foam myself ! ;)

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  13. I love shaving foam, even more than the girls I reckon!

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  14. shaving foam is the best for messy play! I'm glad they do it at nursery however so I don't have to ;) x

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