How to make paints for kids using simple, inexpensive kitchen ingredients. Make the paints with your children and then paint together!
Updated February 2023
Have you ever made homemade watercolor paints?
The process is so easy and doesn’t require many ingredients. And it is probably all stuff you already have in the kitchen.
The best part is you can make the paints together and then use them for an art project!
How to Make Paint
INGREDIENTS
- 3 teaspoons light corn syrup
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 6 tablespoons baking soda
- 6 tablespoons white vinegar
- Food coloring
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine ingredients
Mix your corn syrup, cornstarch, baking soda, and white vinegar together.
- Pour into containers
Divide the mixture into jar lids, small containers, or (as we did) plastic egg carton sections.
- Add color!
3. Add food coloring to each section as desired to make your colors.
- Let dry
Allow your paint to dry completely. But make sure to stir the paints a couple times as they are drying but before they get too hard. Otherwise, the materials separate a bit.
As usual, our kids had as much fun measuring and mixing the ingredients as painting with the finished product. Possibly more!
It was so much fun painting with our new watercolor paints!
They worked pretty well and were translucent like other watercolors. They dry a little powdery though, because of all the cornstarch and baking soda, which isn’t a bad thing, just something to be aware of.
Have any of you tried making homemade watercolor paints? Or any other paints?
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How to Make Paint for Kids
Description
How to make paints for kids using simple, inexpensive kitchen ingredients. Make the paints with your children and then paint together!
Ingredients
- 3 teaspoons light corn syrup
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 6 tablespoons baking soda
- 6 tablespoons white vinegar
- Food coloring
Instructions
1. Mix corn syrup, cornstarch, baking soda, and white vinegar together.
2. Divide into jar lids, small containers, or plastic egg carton sections.
3. Add food coloring to each section, as desired to make your colors.
4. Let dry.
Notes
Note: stir the paints a couple times as they are drying but before they get too hard. Otherwise, the materials separate a bit.
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