Paint
Cindy Walker
Does anybody know of a good and easy recipe for making childrens paint?
I've just tried one using cornstarch and water, but it doesn't really work
that well. I tried one for outdoors using crushed sidewalk chalk and water,
but it didn't go very far for the amount of chalk used. Ideas anyone?
Thanks
Cindy
Marty & Paola Addamiano-Carts
Well, it's kind of silly, but you could make more
sidewalk chalk by using food-colored water to
mix plaster, pour it into toilet-paper rolls, and
then crush the stuff and make paint out of it. I
don't know exactly what goes into the perfected
recipe, as I'm not privy to much of the detailed
alchemy around here. :-(
Alternatively you could do what mine just did,
which is to crush the chaulk and sprinkle that
dust onto glue patterns to make artsy things.
Just a thought.
I remember using finger-paint from a recipe
that used Listerine as an anti-bacterial
component (you were supposed to be able
to store it for a while). We obviously stored
it for too long :-( , but it was fine stuff. The one
ingredient I remember was glycerin--I think that
adds a smoothness to the consistency.
Good luck, and make a unit study out of this. :-)
____________________________Marty
J&D Decker
> > Does anybody know of a good and easy recipe for making childrens paint?
> > I've just tried one using cornstarch and water, but it doesn't really
work
> > that well. I tried one for outdoors using crushed sidewalk chalk and
water,
> > but it didn't go very far for the amount of chalk used. Ideas anyone?
Hope this helps:
Finger Paint
2 cups flour
2 T sugar
2 t salt
3 cups cold water
2 cups hot water
1/2 t glycerine
food coloring
In a large saucepan, gradually mix cold water with flour, sugar and salt
until smooth
Add hot water and stir
Add glycerine and cook on low until glossy (2-3 min.) stirring another 5 min
add food coloring
seal and store in refrigerator
Permanent Milk Paint
1/2 cup canned milk
1/2 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup powdered tempera paint
mix the dry milk with the tempera paint
mix water with canned milk and pour into the dry mixture
this is good for painting glass, plastic, cardboard or fabric
milk is very permanent once dried (I know this because my son has let his
bottle fall sideways on the windowsills and we can hardly get the milk off
without taking the varnish off too!)
Dough Paint
Use after baking dough ornaments, etc
1/2 cup white glue
food coloring
Home made water color paint
Dry tempera paint
water
old ice tray
cans
mix various colors of dry tempera paint in clean empty cans with water to
make paste
spoon into ice trays - let dry 1 to 2 weeks and simply use like a water
color pallette(sp?)
Home made colored chalk
Same as above
when dry pop out of tray and use
Face Paint
1/8 cup baby lotion
1/4 t powdered tempera paint
squirt of dish detergent
Emergency paints
Kool-aid powder, water and paste
cocoa and water
beets
carrots
cherries
blueberries
don't know if these have to be boiled to extract maximum juice, but I would
assume so
Silly Putty or Gak
1 cup glue
1 cup liquid starch
and some determination to get the stuff mixed together!!!!!
food coloring
this is neat stuff but ours was a little too runny
I like powdered tempera, you can mix it with sand and make really pretty
pictures as well as salt, or just mix up some colors quickly
It is pretty versatile and affordable
color chart for tempera
brown - 6t red, 4t yellow, 3t blue
purple - 10t red, 4t blue
orange - 4t red, 12 t yellow
peach - 3t red, 9t, yellow, 1t white
turquoise - 11t blue, 4t green
rose - 12t red, 4t blue
pink - 5t red, 8t white
this way I can get by with 3-5 cans of tempera paint and still have a nice
array of colors for the kids to paint with
Have Fun:)
Dana
Marty & Paola Addamiano-Carts
> "J&D Decker" wrote...
> > > > Does anybody know of a good and easy
> > > > recipe for making childrens paint?[...]
> > add food coloring
> Do you know if either of these can be used on ordinary construction paper,
> or do they need special finger paint paper?
Cindy, I know that government intrusion into
hsers' lives has gotten worse over time, but
I don't think it's gotten as bad as that!!
I think that surely you can use just about any
paint on ordinary construction paper, without
CPS saying a word. :-)
Unless maybe the paint in question was full
of xylene or toluol or the like. _____Marty
Cindy Walker
"J&D Decker" <decker@net(remove-this-part)commander.com> wrote in message
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Do you know if either of these can be used on ordinary construction paper,
or do they need special finger paint paper?
Thanks for all the ideas!
Cindy
Cindy Walker
"Marty & Paola Addamiano-Carts" <alac...@csi.com> wrote in message
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> Emailed too. Cindy Walker wrote:
paper,
> > or do they need special finger paint paper?
>
> hsers' lives has gotten worse over time, but
> I don't think it's gotten as bad as that!!
>
> I think that surely you can use just about any
> paint on ordinary construction paper, without
> CPS saying a word. :-)
LOL! But someone else sent me some recipes and said to use finger paint
paper, and I wondered if that's what went wrong with the paint I made
before. It seemed to just sort of soak into the contruction paper.
Cindy
Stainless Steel Streetrat
<Cindy....@cedarridgeNO.SPAMcom> writes:
> It seemed to just sort of soak into the contruction paper.
I'm thinking *construction* paper is pretty absorbant, so any *other* type of
paper will probably work.
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plastic tray, etc. Then take a piece of paper (construction works fine this
way) and lay on top, then lift- it will pick up the design.
This way, the child can paint for hours with the same paint, using only a
few pieces of paper.
Different paints give different results with different types of paper. I
think it's fun to experiment w/ a variety of types of paper with whatever
kind of paint you use. Try construction, typing paper, finger paint paper,
wax paper, wall paper, newspaper, paper towels, coffee filters...
Add stuff to the paint- glitter, sand, salt, etc
Use a variety of instruments to paint- fingers, Qtips, feathers,
paintbrushes, toy trucks, marbles, golf balls, eye droppers, cookie cutters,
rollers, sponges, spray bottles, and my personal favorite-- FEET
So, don't stiffle your (or your child's) creativity by limiting yourself to
the "proper" paper or other materials! Use whatever you can find!!
Tara P