This week’s messy play was not really very messy at all.

It is a day that just unfolded in a lovely Matilda way and I wanted to share it.

I hope you don’t mind.

After breakfast Esther asked to do some drawing.

She was scribbling away, as she does, and I asked her what she was drawing.

She told me it was a rainbow.

I asked her if I could help her draw a rainbow and together we made the arch shape of a rainbow.

She was then able to continue with it on her own.

I was a very proud Mummy.

Esther loves quiet activities at the moment. Drawing, colouring, painting, stickering.

she decided that the picture was ‘For Daddy’

When Daddy came to see his picture he drew four of us beneath it and Baby Tilda in the sky, swinging on her star.

This started our special art and Tilda day.

At snack time we watched Abney and Teal. The one about Spots.

Abney is decorating his house and Teal uses the paint to paint all over the island.

She paints spirals, swirls, wiggly lines, squares and spots.

Then all the characters get spots, poorly spots.

Esther and William love this episode and so I used it for a sticker activity.

We printed off a picture of Abney, Teal and Neep.

And we gave them spots!

Sticker spots! It was very good fun and a great fine motor skill activity, as they peel off and position the stickers.

After making the characters all spotty we decided to go out and decorate our garden, a bit like Teal decorated the island.

Instead of using paint though we used chalks, which is something that we do a lot.

We took a tub of chalks out into the garden and made some marks.

We recreated Esther’s rainbow from the morning and William asked for a train.

We then drew on the trees around the garden.

We drew stars and swirls, spirals and spots, squares, zig zags and wiggly lines.

We had a wonderful time and of course we wrote Matilda’s name everywhere.

Keen to do more decorating Esther and William climbed into their tree house, declared it to be ‘Teal’s House’ and then played their roles as Abney and Teal painting the house. Very cute!!

They worked together for ages, in character, decorating their house. Nothing was forgotten, ceiling, walls, ladder stairs and slides.

All adorned with spirals, swirls, zig zags, spots, numbers and letters and wiggly, squiggly lines.

When the house was as pretty as it could be we decided to blow some bubbles for Baby Tilda.

It was a wonderful moment for me watching my beautiful twins blow bubbles to their baby sister in the sky.

My eyes were leaking bubbles, as Esther would say.

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.
They flickered out saying:
“It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
― Carl Sandburg

We all called out to Baby Tilda as our bubble kisses floated up to her in the sky.

William then asked if we could get the bubble rocket out to make even more bubbles.

And so that is exactly what we did.

We had decorated our garden with colour and now it was time to send pretty bubbles to paint Baby Tilda’s sky.

We sent bubble after bubble after bubble after bubble, and we had such fun, and were so sad that we could not just give her a great big cuddle and kiss. That it can only ever be countless bubbles to the sky.

And she must have liked those bubbles you know, because she sent some beautiful bubbles back!

Forgive me if this play is not messy play

It is true Matilda Mae play

And I hope that you will link up a play post of your own

Messy, sensory or otherwise

We love to see all your fabulous ideas

Thank you x