After taking a few tips from Jocelyn at the Reading Residence on painting with toddlers, I decided to cover the table with lining paper, line Sophie’s high chair with a bin bag and have a painting session at the table with both my beautiful girls. Apart from one time of painting Sophie’s hand to get some handprints, this was Sophie’s first time with paper and paints.
Jessica always loves painting and started off with a lovely painting of a person which she then proceeded to fill in. She also did a little bit of stamping using some old bottle tops but preferred using the brushes to stamping. 
Sophie meanwhile was enjoying playing with the paint and had a few tastes before she could be persuaded that this wasn’t some new foodstuff. Once she got going though, she was very happy getting her hands covered in the paint and smearing it across the paper in front of her. 
I joined in with a bit of finger painting to add a few spots to the paper before we hung the finished picture on the door to dry. I love the fact that there are the three very distinct areas of painting – Jessica’s is at the top, mine is bottom left and Sophie’s is bottom right. 
Ah, lovely pictures. A first painting session is always special. It looks like she had fun and became quite engrossed in it. #MiniCreations
Thank you – she had a wonderful time 🙂
I love the result of her artwork. Enjoy your painting journey with your little one (and the mess!) #MiniCreations
Thank you! 🙂
What a great idea, I love how Sophie has paint around her mouth. A great activity for you all to do together #SSAmazingAchievements
Thanks Jane – we enjoyed it! 🙂
That’s so sweet! Looks like they both had a lot of fun 🙂
Thank you – they certainly did! 🙂
Must have been fun for them! With my toddler, one of the first activities we did was sponge painting too.
Thank you – we loved it 🙂
Fantastic effort – looks like the results were well worth the effort. Kids just love to paint, don’t they? Whenever we get the paints out at home for our three, there is absolutely no stopping them.
Thanks Tim – it’s lovely to have time painting with the kids 🙂
Love these kind of sessions – we still do hand pictures and now have a yearly update of Mummy and Monkey hands #SSAA
Oh that sounds like a lovely idea – what a lovely tradition 🙂
Aww this is lovely! So cute to see them painting together. Love that shot of both of them where Sophie is looking at the camera with paint all over her face, so cute!! Xx
Thank you – I love that photo too 🙂
So cute and a very brilliant little painting. I remember Z doing his first drawing for me and I loved it so much!
Thank you – so lovely when they start to draw and paint 🙂
Great pictures, it’s fab to get all the surfaces covered up and just enjoy making a painting with all the messy fun that follows.
We roll down a big sheet of lining paper down the hall sometimes and chalk/crayon away, all good fun.
Thanks for linking up with #SSAmazingAchievements
Lining paper is great for things like that. Lovely to link up again 🙂