Have you ever made your own paints?
I have wanted to make my own paints since I was a child. I am just getting around to it today. Yeah I know...Supah Slackah. I made it with my 3 year old daughter thanks to a wonderful recipe by Deanna over at Little House In the Suburbs. You will need.
2tsp baking soda
2Tbsp white flour
2tsp sugar
2Tbsp water
1tsp of citric acid or 1 pkg of unsweetened drink mix (our choice)
food coloring ( we went with red)
ice cube tray
---We put the baking soda, flour, sugar and kool-aid (drink mix) in a bowl and stirred it to mix it a little.
--- We added the water and waited for the fizzy fun to stop before scooping spoonfuls into the ice cube tray.
--- Then we added the food coloring ( I couldn't tell you how much,
cuz Tasneem wasn't measuring it out) hehe.
We stirred it while it was in the trays and then just started painting. We added water to create different shades. It was cool:) We are letting the rest of the paint dry so that we can use it at a later date. Deanna said let it dry a couple of days. So, yeah. We'll try. I love that the paintings that we have made smell like tropical punch. I wanna paint something else! More grown upish. Buuuut..this isn't bad...If you like this sorta thing....
This one is my fave:)
I love that we were able to do this project together. My girlish girls had a good time:) I did too:) Do something fun today! Take care
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