Kool-aid Fingerpaint
2 cups flour
2 packs unsweetened
kool-aid
1/2 cup salt
3 cups boiling
water
3 tbls oil
Mix wet into dry. Watch the color change. When cool, paint.
Jello Fingerpaint
Any kind of flavored
jello and enough boiling water to make it into a
goo consistency
for fingerpaint. Use normal fingerpainting or glossy
paper and be creative.
Don't forget to let it cool before use.
Sparkly Paint
Premix liquid starch
with powdered tempera or pour liquid starch on the
paper. Have children
spread it around and then sprinkle on powdered
tempera from a
big holed salt shaker. Spread it around some more.
Add salt for sparkles.
Coarse salt works best.
Condensed Milk Paint
Use 1/4 cup of condensed
milk with a few drops of food coloring for
pastel paint that
will dry with
a glossy finish.
Encourage kids to use paint sparingly. It may take
forever to dry,
anyway. It may never dry if the paint is too thick or if the
day is too humid.
Water Painting
Paint with water
color paints on wet paper. Or drop diluted food
coloring with eyedroppers
on a
coffee filter.
Sparkle Snow Paint
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water
Mix together and
put in a squeeze bottle. Squeeze doughy paint out
on to black construction
paper. Make anything snowy, snowflakes,
snowmen, - we made
snow covered mountains with the moon
and northern lights.
Let dry thoroughly and it will sparkle. May
also be painted
(when dry) and allowed to dry again. This is a
great three dimensional
effect for snow.
Finger Paint
1 cup liquid starch
1/2 cup soap chips
6 cups warm water
Dry tempera or
food coloring
Dissolve soap chips
with enough water and stir until all lumps have
disappeared.
Add to starch and remaining water. Keep covered in
plastic jar.
Color may be added as children paint, or in the mix. A few
drops of oil of
clove prevents bad odors. Be sure to keep mixtures in
covered jars in
a cool place.
Puffy Paint
flour
salt
water
Tempera paint
Mix equal parts
of flour, salt and water, color with tempera paint and
pour mixture into
squeeze bottles. It will harden in a puffy shape.
Face Paint
1/8 cup baby lotion
1/4 tsp powdered
tempera paint
one squirt liquid
dish soap
Combine ingredients.
Apply to face and/or body. Easily removed with
soap and water.