Sparkle painting

I found some really great & cheap fingerpaints with built in sparkles the other day. We tend to make a huge mess fingerpainting, so we took our antics outside.

The colors were lovely, and SPARKLY. We commenced with making sheet after sheet of painty goodness. Both of us dug in, albeit I was a bit more restrained than the child, given that I didn't want a sparkly camera after the ordeal. :)

While painting we started drawing lines in the thick paint. And then we begun to see accidental subjects, calling them out to one another. Another injection of creativity into a simple exercise.

We saw:
A race track (me)
A giraffe in a rainstorm (kenzie)
peppermint candies (me)
a snake slithering through grass (kenzie)
a kangaroo tail (kenzie)
leggos (me)
rainbow hands (kenzie)
fairy dust (kenzie)
a checkerboard (me)
crazy lady hair (kenzie)
...and this was only a few.

Amazing, how my mind went to the tangible - and Kenzie saw more visionary imaginative findings. It was a most excellent mess.