No mess painting!

I get a little frustrated with people who tell me that creative experiences for babies are a waste of time. From a personal perspective, my Peanut has loved each of the activities I have done with her. Does she NEED them for her development? Nope. She would develop quite beautifully without them. Does she enjoy them? Yes. 
That's good enough for me!

Here are two different mess free painting activities to do with very little littles.

Our first activity was another way to re-use those plastic drinking bottles. 

To set up you need some plastic bottles, paint and a few marbles.
I didn't have marbles on hand so used rocks instead. Not a great substitute but we went with what we had. 
You need to put a small amount of paint in the bottom of the bottle along with your marble/s and then screw the lid on tightly. If you are concerned about your little one being able to undo the lid you could glue it to the bottle. We didn't do this and didn't need to.

Just give the bottles to your littlies and let them shake away. 
As they shake them the paint covers the bottle.
If your paint is a little thick add a few drops of water. 

For our next activity I cut a few sheets of paper small enough to fit inside a couple of snap-lock bags and popped a few blobs of paint on them.

Zipped them up and handed them to Peanut. She could poke at them, squish them, splat them and not make a bit of mess. Yay! 

Fun, easy, mess free painting!!