If you give your preschoolers a paint set, they’ll need some water to go with it.
When you give each their very own bowl of water, they’ll swirl their paint brushes into it until it turns royal blue and then brown.
Soon they’ll tire of painting their “O is for Ocean” papers and paint their hands instead.
When their hands are royal blue, they’ll look around for something else to paint.
You’ll dash upstairs and grab the sea critters out of the tub. When they tire of painting bath toys, you’ll whisk each preschooler to the sink and attempt to wash the water-soluble watercolors from their hands.
Warm, soapy water won’t work for this, so you’ll suggest a walk outside.
When you and Opa are cold and tired of watching your preschoolers zoom down the driveway in their little cars, you’ll suggest a treat.
Back inside, you’ll offer them a bar. They’ll want fruit snacks instead, so you’ll hand each a bag and ask them to sit on the rug. Of course, they’ll want hot chocolate with whip cream and sprinkles to go with their fruit snacks, so you’ll move them to the kitchen.
Next, you’ll fix hot chocolate and pour it into their itty-bitty teacups. Eventually, one or more of your preschoolers will spill her hot chocolate on the kitchen counter.
Before you can grab a towel to wipe up their messes, they’ll discover how to slurp it from the counter top so as not to waste a single drop.
You’ll note that hot chocolate stains faces as well as royal blue, water-soluble watercolor paints do.
And, you’ll press on to “P is for Penguin” next week.