A few months ago, I was at a face painting jams and one of my friends had a new bag for his sponges made out of bath towels. He had purchased white towels and dyed them a dark black/blue color. His idea was the towels would take care of any water on the sponges and the dark color would hide any stains.

I thought he had a good idea. A week or two later, I saw a bag made out of sweatshirt material at one of the craft stores and bought it for my sponges. The last time or two when I was face painting, I noticed something like lint forming when I rubbed the sponges on the paint. I wasn't sure if something was up with my paints or it was from cutting the sponges in half. Today, I finally realized that my sponges picked up the fuzz from inside the bag. You know, the inside of a sweatshirt is fuzzy compared with the outside. It was a good idea, but I will have to work on it a bit more.

I use one of those little net laundry bags for washing delicates... they come in a pack of two at the dollar store. Keep clean ones in there all the time and they dry really fast.... dirty ones go in a plastic sealed container so they don't make a mess all over the place and I've been told that if they don't dry with the paint on them that it won't stain as much, but I haven't seen a big difference in that regard.

why didnt he just use dark blue towells?

I just put dirty rinse water and used sponges in an ice cream pail, under the table. If I'm only painting a few people, I just have a little drawstring bag I put the sponges in.

Here in the UK after the use of each sponge we immerse it in acti- bacterial solution so at the end of a face painting gig all are clean and ready to go next day. 1 sponge 1 kid. Gosh are we anal about s***

why didnt he just use dark blue towells?

I had asked that same question and think the answer had something to do with the fact that you can buy white towels in bulk at discount prices.

I had been using the nylon laundry bags, but thought that I could come up with something that didn't look like a bag of sponges. I may put the nylon bag inside the other bag and see if that protects the sponges from the fuzz.

I store them in the mesh laundry bags used by ladies for washing delicates.

We use a sponge (or more) per kid and then put them into plastic containers (along with our dirty water) for laundering at the end of the day.We make it a habit to never use a sponge on more than one kid.

I use one sponge per child and use one brush per child when I paint near their nose or mouth (usually animal designs). I just started using hand sanitizer between children, so far it hasn't bothered my hands. With all these reports about Santa using hand sanitizer between children, I thought I have more of a need to use it since I'm touching a child's face than santa. Before I never used hand sanitzer, hated the feel of it, but I'm getting use to it. I'm a big advocate of washing hands instead. I'm not sure if the parents are aware of my extra safety precautions but I feel better about them.

Am I the only one who has more than once misread this thread's title as "bag for spouses"?

Am I the only one who has more than once misread this thread's title as "bag for spouses"?

Don't worry Princess, nobody would ever try to stuff you in a bag.