May 2012 So the little horrors, sorry artists, are looking for somewhere to play.
As with anything child related, the amount you can expect to pay for a paint pot really depends on how cool you want to look. As far as this reviewer can tell, there’s very little (i.e. no) difference between the six non spill paint receptacles a certain high street store sells on its website for £4, and the four sold on a trendy kid’s store site for more than a tenner. Except, presumably, that the kudos one receives at preschool coffee mornings for shelling out what could have been half a tank of petrol on a bunch of see through paint holders is worth the extra six pounds. Anyhoo. Paint pots there are, in abundance, on the world wide information superwotsit – and, hefty price tag or suitably cheap alike, they do a darn fine job of stopping one’s creative children from creating all over the walls.
You know how children like to stick a brush in their paint, ostensibly to get some of said paint and put it on a piece of paper, but really so they can pick the whole tub up by the brush handle and hurl it against the cat? Most of these ingenious little kiddie’s art devices mean the most damage a hurled pot will do is a drop or two of colour, rather than an ocean of cerise or British Racing Green. The lids are screwed on, and have an opening (similar to the duck beak opening on a child’s cup lid) large enough to admit one brush – which means that any child waving these paint pots around isn’t going to do any damage at all. They can pick the things up, brush first, if they like – but all that will happen is that the pot will wobble around on the end of the stick and all the paint stays inside. Magic!