Messy Children!

What is it with children and mess? I know what you’re thinking, children and mess go hand in hand! This week at school it has been Africa week so we have been making all sorts of stuff connected with Africa. Therefore, this morning when we were doing some wood block printing on some scarves I thought, I better put on my “painting shirt” as I don’t want my shirt to get messy. However, I had no protection on my lovely denim skirt, so naturally where do you think my lovely children got paint on me? That’s right – my skirt! Also, not forgetting that because we had put special glue in the paint to make it stick to the scarves, the teacher’s assistant in my year said it might not come out. Well, have already put it in the wash once, and it has come out quite a lot, but not fully, but hopefully another couple of washes and we should have a lovely – paint free – skirt!
It is not the first day this week that I have come home with a present on my trousers/skirt from my children! Yesterday I noticed at break time that there was some glue on my nice black trousers. When I noticed it the teacher said – was it a particular child, and actually yes it was as they had been waving the glue sticks around everywhere, including getting some in their hair!
At what age is it that we stop creating mess when doing arts and crafts and actually get paint/glue where we're meant to?