Good question, Rachael! I’ve never tried making it with liquid watercolours before, but I have used liquid food colouring and it worked just fine. My understanding is that liquid watercolours are essentially liquid food colouring and water, so if that’s true, it should work. One thing to keep in mind would be that it does take A LOT more liquid food colouring to make the paint vibrant than it does when using gels, so you may have to use a lot. On second thought, maybe you could just add cornstarch straight to your liquid water colours?! I bet that would work really well!

Wash timely is important,I always keep all the stained clothes until night,it’s too hard to clean them.So i \don’t try any painting.

This paint probably would have stained light-coloured clothing quite badly, but luckily we had dressed her in dark colours for the activity. Her little denim shorts were covered in it, but I’m happy to say that they came out of the wash perfectly clean! I’m not sure about juice because Gracen doesn’t have juice yet, but I do know that we’ve had several things stained with avocado and apple, and as long as I don’t let them sit too long, add some Borax to the wash, and wash them in cold water, they come out clean! :)

Oh, a splash pool sounds lovely! I’ve had my eye out for one, but I want one with a cover and haven’t had much luck… The crab and turtle sandboxes would work, but they’re so shallow. Must keep looking! :)

The water one was a hit! Hahaha, we’ve just been playing in a splash pool on the deck a lot lately.

It was a tons of fun. Easy, cheap, and entertaining – the perfect activity, really (as long as you don’t mind messes and stained kiddos, that is!) :)

Hahaha – yes, totally not for those who don’t like messes. I won’t lie – Gracen’s legs were stained for days despite long, leisurely baths each night. Regular food colouring may not be as bad, but it would certainly still be messy. Regular sidewalk chalk or painting the sidewalks with water are probably more your style. :)