How To Make Homemade Paint for Kids. This is an easy, kid-friendly, “recipe” to make homemade paint (using ingredients you have in your kitchen pantry) for your next arts and crafts project.
BONUS: it dries puffy giving the artwork a 3D effect!
Aside: it’s a fact that kids will always end up painting themselves
How To Make Homemade Paint for Kids
You will need:
- Newspaper
- Bowl
- Measuring cup
- 1 tbsp of flour
- 4 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp of salt
- Food colouring
- Paint pots (Eco-Tip! clean and re-use clean applesauce or yogurt containers)
Directions:
- Spread out newspaper to protect your work surface.
- Measure the ingredients.
- In the bowl, combine flour, water, salt. Mix well. Pour mixture in plastic paint pots.
- Add a few drops of food colouring to each pot.
This paint will harden to be sure to use up all your paint, throw unused paint in the garbage (not down the sink), and clean the plastic pots for your next activity attack!
NOTE: food colouring does stain…so when the kids eventually try to paint themselves (and you know they will)…the food colouring from the paint may stain their hands a bit. It does wash off eventually so no permanent damage.
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This paint works well on:
- canvas
- paper
- rocks
- wood frames
- Popsicle sticks
- bird houses
- newspaper
- paper plates
- masks
This would be great to do outside on a nice day, then the mess is outdoors and if it’s really nice out, the kids can run under the sprinkler to get cleaned up!
Amazing! it is pretty straight forward to make and doesn’t take long ! great thing to have for my daughters to keep them busy during the summer and with my oldest during her ABA therapy sessions
I love this idea Caroline and who cares about the mess when kids are having real fun 😉
I would love to try this but like Lynda,i think the backyard on a nice day would be nice to try this project!
Kids would love this! 🙂
Wow…what a neat idea!
My kiddos would go nuts for this! It is also a great frugal alternative to buying kids’ paint at the store. We go through a lot of paint, so that is a huge perk! Thanks for sharing your DIY with us at Merry Monday this week!
With four kids, this will be a hit at our house!
Pinned & sharing. See you again soon.
It’s super frugal…and you can make small batches so it won’t go to waste
it’s a fun backyard activity
it’s easy enough to clean up as an inside or outside activity
great idea Lynda
straight forward and can take as long (or little) as you like