We’ll see you all tomorrow for Splash Day!

We hope you all have an amazing and safe weekend.

Our younger friend play group was teeny tiny this morning, but they were having fun!

Just a reminder that we are closed next Friday, July 4th. We’ll see everyone on Monday, July 7th.

Tomorrow will be a fun, and only slightly messy, Messy Art day where we use toilet paper rolls cut into fringe to make fireworks on paper!

We’re ready for a fun Splash Day tomorrow as well.

Painting with Fly Swatters is short and delightfully messy–but it’s one of my favorite activities of the summer because it provides such opportunities outside of art and mess.

Yes, some children take this project as an outlet to smack that paper as hard as they can and watch the paint splatter to everyone and everything around them–and that’s encouraged for this project! Some are not quite as sure about the paint splatter on their clothing and skin, so they will paint gently and experiment with the force of their strikes. Some children much prefer to stand 5 feet away and watch the activity (and that’s also OK!). We all have different sensory thresholds and this project provides not just an opportunity to experiment and try something new (and maybe just push the sensory boundary a bit) but also an opportunity to say ‘no’ and observe.

But how do we react when a friend splatters paint on our shirt (or the child accidentally paints themselves!) when using the fly swatter? How do we handle a sudden, and maybe unwanted, change to our skin or shirt? Well, it’s MESSY ART DAY! And mess is invited because we can always clean our skin and we can always change our clothing (most children don’t want to change their clothing and will show you how much they paint they got on their shirts, shorts, etc. at pickup time with pride 🙂 ). If a friend is enjoying the paint so much that the splatter is spraying everywhere during this activity, we can feel empowered to move our own bodies to a different area. As Ms. Frizzle says, “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!”

And the weather was exquisite!

Just a reminder that we will be closed on Thursday, 6.19.

If it’s circle time, it’s time to move!

We hope you all have an amazing Father’s Day weekend.

On another note, Splash Day is a definite go for next week! It looks like it should be very pleasant weather.