Hooray for Summer! (and Grandchildren and Sleepovers and Ice Cream and Unicorn Spit!)

I know a lot of parents out there are looking forward to sending their kids back to school next week. Not me!

That’s because I’m a GRANDMA!

I had such a fun summer with our grandchildren, I hate to see it end.

We kicked off summer by taking the kids out for ice cream on the last day of school. Our grandaughter Claire finished kindergarten and learned how to read this year.

We are so proud of her!

Dave took all four kids fishing one afternoon.

My favorite memory this summer was our 1st Annual Sleepover at Grandma and Pop’s House. Everybody packed up their PJ’s and the sleeping bags they got last Christmas just for this big event. We ate pizza, played games and stayed up way past their bedtimes (and ours!).

We also worked on a really fun craft project for the kids using Unicorn Spit, the new non-toxic rainbow gel stain we sell at our shop All Things New Again in Leesburg, VA and right here in our online store.

Unicorn Spit is messy. It is even messier with four children ages 2, 3, 4 and 6, but that is all part of the fun! We set up a table out on our deck and put down a dropcloth. Then we opened up all 10 colors of Unicorn Spit and let the kids dip their fingers in and paint wooden letters to spell their names.

Unicorn Spit is non-toxic and does not contain any harmful chemicals or VOC’s. I have no worries letting the children fingerpaint with it. I have fun fingerpainting with it too on crafty projects like the letters and on my furniture projects. Unicorn Spit looks beautiful on tabletops, desks and dresser drawers. It also sticks to metal, ceramic and concrete so there are endless options for making things look pretty with it!

The kids all had a lot of fun creating art with Unicorn Spit.

Shane is only 2-years-old, but he keeps up with the big kids and made it through most of his letters. He looks a little upset here, but he’s not. That’s just the face he makes right now when he says, “Cheeeeeeeeese!”

Don’t worry. The Unicorn Spit washed off of his face and ear (eventually).

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Joey, age 3, is an old Unicorn Spit Pro. (Here he is helping Courtney in one of her DIY videos.)

He was finished with his letters in no time.

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Our big girl Claire, age 6, decided she was going to use every single color on every single letter—and she did! We had to move inside to finish her letters because it started raining.

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Carleigh, age 4, was the last one to finish, but that didn’t bother her one bit.

“Hamma,” she said. That’s what she calls me because she doesn’t pronounce her G’s right yet.

“I have the most letters in my name!”

After the kids went home, Dave and I finished their projects by sealing the letters with oil-based polyurethane and mounting them on wooden signs. Dave cut out the wood and we used Unicorn Spit to decorate each sign to match their rooms.

Here are the artists with their finished projects! Now they have a souvenir to remember a really fun night from our really fun summer.

~ Cathy

All Things New Again is a family-owned furniture and paint boutique in Leesburg, Virginia (about an hour or so west of Washington, D.C.) We offer hand painted (and hand-spit!) furniture along with several lines of paint for your next DIY project. We also sell Unicorn Spit right here in our online store. We ship throughout the U.S.

Our Introduction to Unicorn Spit class teaches several techniques to get you started using this awesome creative juice. (Hey, if our little kids can do it—YOU can too!) Class is limited to 3 people and fills up quickly. Here’s the link with details.