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!
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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 we bake we often make a mess. But it’s all in good fun! :)
drawing colourful pictures on the wall
Boy it seems like we’ve had every kind of mess there is! But sometimes I’m just like No way! Can’t deal with it! My biggest messy pet peeves are play dough in the carpet, sparkles and markers!
Ugh – spilling the dye for Ukrainian easter eggs. It was horrible!
I would say when an entire carton of chocolate milk spilled….EVERYWHERE!
peanut butter smeared all over!
Colouring the walls with her crayons.
The kids & I were making glitter ornaments by putting them in a paper bag of glitter & shaking them to coat them. DD shook hers too hard & it exploded e v e r y w h e r e. A year later we are still finding sparkles!
I wouldn’t call my mess creative but the worst one I ever had was breaking a bottle of red wine over beige carpet.
my daughter tried to make a snow globe with a mason jar once. Only she didn’t get the lid on quite tight enough. of course when she decided to give it a shake, everything went flying everywhere. sparkles and water all over the walls!