Recently my girls and I went to a pottery painting store to make some Christmas/Birthday presents for Daddy. While browsing the store's website to get some ideas before going (since I'm not so crafty!), I came across a plate with a pumpkin on it...a 'bum'pkin!!! Now I thought this was beyond adorable and something I had to do (just not in public in the middle of a store)...and so it became our at home project.
Things you'll need:
- orange and green washable paint
- paint brush
- paper plate (unless your child will stay put long enough to paint their bum!)
- whatever you'd like to put the bum on - we used white construction paper
- a paint proof location and a tiny bum :)
First I poured some paint onto the paper plate and spread it around. Unfortunately you can't tell in the picture how quickly I had to do this while Alexandria started unrolling the toilet paper!
Then I put the paper plate with paint on the floor next to 3 pieces of paper. I'm not sure there's an 'art form' to getting this accomplished, but I sat her bum on the paper plate and smushed her down a bit. After that I picked her up and plopped her back on the floor on top of a piece of paper. You'll see in the pictures that the bottom of the bumpkin (near her legs) isn't quite as round it probably should have been. My only resolution to this would be to hold your child between your arms with their legs up and get only bums to stamp on the paper.
Next we cleaned up because I'm not sure anyone wants their child running around with a wet paint orange bum while you're trying to draw on the stem! The stem was simple; just a quick brush stroke and you're done. BUMpkins!!!
