Spongeball Painting

Last week we painted with sponge balls. I saw the sponge balls in the Family Fun magazine a few months ago and since I couldn't find Koosh balls (that's what I originally wanted to use to paint with) I decided I would make the sponge balls instead. They were super easy to make (I made 5 of them in under 5 minutes) and the girls HAD SO MUCH FUN painting with them. Although, my neighbor was in shock and terrified that I was letting the girls paint and make a mess! She was doing yard work outside and almost screamed when she saw the girls having fun and throwing sponge balls soaked in paint onto a piece of paper. She must have told me 100 times that I was really brave (we were outside and the paint comes right off. Heck, I'd even let them do this in their Matilda Jane clothes if it wasn't such a hot day outside!) and "Your dog has paint on her nose!" Me: "Okay". Neighbor: "But your dog has paint on her nose!" Me: "I'll clean it off when we get inside". Neighbor: "Oh look at your dogs nose!" I wish I had a video camera rolling at this scene: 2 crazy little girls, giggling and throwing paint-soaked sponges on a piece of paper, crazy mom (me) trying to get some pictures, crazy dog (Maisy) running around the paintings and getting paint on her and crazy neighbor (name will not be mentioned) standing there in horror!

All that actually made me not get many pictures since I had to keep telling my neighbor that my dog's nose was just fine.