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I thought these were supposed to be good things for your kid to play with unattended. I can only imagine the nightmare-ish mess I'd be facing if I let my kid play with homemade paint without supervision. Or with supervision, even.
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Have you looked at any of the ingredients? Most call for pure soap flakes, flour, etc. making clean up very very easy. These are not commercial paints from Canadian Tire we are talking about.
Put newsprint or scrap paper over the kitchen table, better yet, get your child a little table and chair set of their own. Get a plastic tablecloth for the floor if you are that worried about mess and let them paint away. And the face and body paints wash off with water. Put them in the tub, let them paint away, they come out spic and span.
When your child is older and able to handle farther distances away from you as parents, if you are still worried about mess, set them up in the basement or garage, or your patio.
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One thing that really works for my daughter is chalk. Unbelievable how much time she can spend outside colouring up the patio. A quick spray-down, or rainshower and it's all gone. Perfect.
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Yup, chalk too is great for creativity.