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Following. We are at 2 years old and I have no intention of giving her free rein. I'm sure it would work for some toddlers, but mine would have the entire house painted in about 5 minutes. 🤣
I'm thinking of a small table with chairs and somehow storing the art supplies underneath it, or possibly installing shelves over it out of reach.

PS we have several bottles of Crayola finger paint that we keep in the bathroom. I let her finger paint the bathtub while naked and then bathe her and the tub

I also have a huge role of Kraft paper. We often wrap family gifts with it and I let her go crazy with craft supplies.

@wrkbrk: I started out with the color wonder, we actually still have them around, they're my favorite thing to bring to other people's houses. I unleash my kid on their white couches and watch the fun!

But seriously, my son found them a bit frustrating, there's a weird "delay" to when the colors appear sometimes. So we went to the washable crayola markers and never looked back. My son's even got sharpies now, and you should see the surface of his desk, it's all marked up, but hey, it can be fixed with a little light sanding eventually.

@wrkbrk: He's almost 7 now, but he's had them without supervision since he turned 4. Since he was 2, I would buy the light colored versions (there's a set that is neon colors or something and they don't stain as badly as the bold and classic sets) and he could have them in the kitchen, when he was sitting down. We have an old formica table that I can clean with a magic eraser, so I figured that was a good place for art (markers and paint).

There's a set of color wonder markers that look like paintbrushes, those were a bit better than the traditional markers. I was disappointed in the finger paint, they're clear gel and don't spread that well.

@looch: Just ordered a pack on amazon!!