Fingerpainting and Gum

In the Joy School manual, for this last week, they suggested finger painting with shaving cream. It seemed like a brilliant idea- it washes off, it smells good and the table top should be easy to clean, right?! It sure WAS fun.....


Delaney enjoyed it a lot. She was a bit unsure at first to get messy hands, but once she saw everyone else getting into it, she had a blast.

Yes, Callie had a great time too. All the kids did. In hindsight, I could have done a few things differently. Smocks would have been good. Most kids got at least some shaving cream on their sleeves. Mauricio is the most talented and had it all over his shirt, pants and even behind his ear. So smocks would have helped. Also, they all finished at the same time and it was awful trying to get their hands all washed while saying, no! don't touch anything! to those who still had shaving cream all over. Still, everyone enjoyed it a lot and we may do it again. Well, I may do it again with just MY children. 7 kids was a lot to do this with.


Now on to today's story. As I was getting ready for bed last night, I noticed what appeared to be hair in the trash can. Closer inspection revealed this to be true- a good 3 inches of hair, wrapped around gum. Hmmm... Now who could the culprit be? No question there- Marian is the only one sneaky enough to get gum at bedtime, and the only one quiet and stealthy enough to trim her own hair without drawing attention to the fact. Since she was already asleep, I had to wait till morning to assess the damage.

Thanks to daylight savings, we were running behind today. That is my excuse as to why I did not do a better job with her hair. Had I time to consider it, I may have attempted to taper around the front, or I may have been able to keep more hair on her.

Here is where she snipped of a chunk. There was still a little gum crinkled in her hair, which I think is why I didn't think about tapering the front. And did I mention I was in a hurry? Plus, it was darn hard to cut her hair! I could NOT get it even! I finally gave up and figured it would just look like I layered it a little.

This was how the back looked when I thought I was done.

Then I took this picture of the front and realized just how uneven the sides were. so I had to lop off a bit more from that side. I expect its still not entirely even, but too bad. I had pancakes to make and lunches to make and kids to get on the bus! Plus, Marian is a cutie pie, no matter how her hair looks.