If there’s one universal truth I’ve discovered as a mother of boys, it’s that life with boys is messy! From dirt on the floor to pee on the toilet seat, I’ve pretty much resigned myself to dealing with random messes for the rest of my life. But while some messes are just flat-out gross, others are a lot more tolerable. Cleaning up the spilled chocolate from a kitchen baking session or scraps of paper and foam from a marathon crafting spree is worth the effort considering how much fun my boys have making those messes!
Luckily, cleaning up after my boys has become a lot easier since I discovered Swiffer products! From the handy Swiffer Sweeper for floors to the Swiffer 360 Duster for tables, shelves and more, I can say yes to the mess with Swiffer in my corner. Letting my boys make a mess has led to some pretty amazing creations, including large, colourful paintings and delicious kitchen creations. And since I, like 70% of other Canadian parents, believe that making a mess encourages creativity, I appreciate anything that helps me clean up those messes quickly and thoroughly!
Personally, I think that the favourite messy project my boys have ever made was our family hand-print artwork. When it came to making a mess, this was in a class of its own! Coating our hands and arms in acrylic paint, pressing them down on a canvas and then using other colours of paint and our fingerprints to decorate meant lots and lots of cleanup. And as hard as we tried, a few splatters ended up on the floor. The Swiffer WetJet made quick work of the mess, though, and the end results were well worth it!
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When my son was about 4 he made a creation in the kitchen. It was a drink with all sorts of things in it. The mess was big.
My children seemed to make the most mess when they were using salt dough to make Christmas decorations. Little pieces would end up in the carpet, dirty painting water also went everywhere, paint brushes full of paint would be attracted to the carpet. It was always a long job cleaning up but they had so much fun and made such wonderful decorations of which they were rightfully very proud that I couldn’t be upset with them. :-)
My kids most creative messes have involved lots of glitter, glue and cutting paper into tons of tiny pieces! They have fun though!
The most creative mess I think I ever allowed my kids to do was to play with Floam and the Moon Sand. OMG.. They were putting Floam on my railings, the tiles and I am still trying to get it out of the carpets. Moon Sand well it is all over the place..
I myself can make a mess when I am scrapbooking – the paper all over the place, the glitter, the glue! OMG.
I have no kids so I’ll base it on my nieces and nephews. I’ll say Play Doh is the biggest mess maker, but also the longest played with so one can tolerate the mess.
Baking with sprinkles – let say I was cleaning them up for weeks!
A bottle of cola exploded all over the kitchen, for ages after whenever the sun shone I would find more spots!
Our little guy got a hold of a bottle of baby powder and ran around the whole house before I noticed??!!! :(
I dropped a gallon of apple juice on the floor and it broke. Had to move everything in the kitchen to clean it up.
The kids were in their bedroom playing with some cousins and they coulored on the walls as high as they could reach all around the room!