As we prepare for another RiseFest (held Saturday, June 20th in Orange City – I’ll expect all of you there), I was running down the list of activities at the Kids Zone to ensure we were ready to go next weekend. My eyes grazed the list and then stopped. Face paint. Did I see a note saying we were using acrylic face paint? Is that a good idea? Everything I read about acrylic paint suggests that you use it on ceramics and wood. Are we sure this is safe to use as face paint?
The rest of my team assures me that it will be fine. They discuss the quantity you would have to use before it becomes a toxicity issue.
Poisoning the children?! Seriously?! I hadn’t even thought about that. GREAT!
No, where my concerns lie are with the staining. You know, the face paints that don’t wash off.
When #1 turned 5 we invited her entire preschool class (one boy amongst a group of girls) out to the house for a party. We did it right. We did a jungle theme and ordered take home glasses, prizes for the planned games, balloons, face paint, the whole nine yards. I ordered these fabulous face paint markers. I thought it was a brilliant idea. It would make coloring on their small faces easier and no clean up! A mother must have invented these things.
As I drew balloons, butterflies and flowers on the youngsters faces, my husband took the liberty to be a bit more creative. He drew goatees, curly handlebar mustaches, and little German ‘staches on the little girls. Funny, right?
Even funnier when the party was over and we discovered that the face paint left stains on the kids’ faces. A father must have invented these horrible disfiguring instruments. Seriously?! Face Paints? They should have more aptly named them Face Stains! There are a few mothers I still can’t look in the eye to this day.
Please assure me that the acrylic paints won’t semi-permanently disfigure the faces of the kiddos at RiseFest. I can’t endure another incident.
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