Jeremiah 17: 7, 8 “But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water and sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
The girls wanted to do some finger painting and I just finally picked up some food coloring the day before so it was perfect timing. My eager helpers and I set out to make some home made paint ! 10 min. of taking turns stirring the mixture, rearranging (they like to rearrange things) the paper plates lay out, and debating over what color we should have, we settled on 5 colors: blue, green, red, purple, and yellow. We divided the mixture onto each plate, put a drop or two of food coloring on top and the girls take turn mixing the color in. It was nice seeing all the swirls of colors.
The kids had a great time playing with the paint ! squishing paint between fingers, drawing on paper, painting on paper, and then they took their kitchen toys out and pretend they're cooking with them. There were drops of gooey color all over the floor, table, and their aprons. It's very very messy but oh so much fun ! I was mushing them on my fingers too. It's like playing with sticky goo :) We make a lot of messies around here :D Anything fun will come with some kind of mess ! The kids love it and I love it. The best part about this is that, cleaning is just as easy as making it ! you can wipe the paint off all surfaces with a damp cloth and all is nice and all is good again.
The kids had a great time playing with the paint ! squishing paint between fingers, drawing on paper, painting on paper, and then they took their kitchen toys out and pretend they're cooking with them. There were drops of gooey color all over the floor, table, and their aprons. It's very very messy but oh so much fun ! I was mushing them on my fingers too. It's like playing with sticky goo :) We make a lot of messies around here :D Anything fun will come with some kind of mess ! The kids love it and I love it. The best part about this is that, cleaning is just as easy as making it ! you can wipe the paint off all surfaces with a damp cloth and all is nice and all is good again.
For this safe-to-eat paint, you will need corn starch, cold water, boiling water, and food coloring. 1/2 cup of corn starch, about 1/4 cup of cold water, and depending on how you like the paint texture to be, any where between 1 1/2 cup of boiling water to 2 cups. Although the paint is safe to ingest, I still discourage the kids to put in their mouth. I rather them think that paint is not food :D
Instructions:
Non cook method:
- put 1/2 cup of cornstarch into a measuring cup
- pour in 1/4 cup of cold water on top of the starch - DON'T MIX it just yet. Just gently swirl the hand whisk around, for the water to mix in with the TOP LAYER of the starch, the bottom should be dry still.
- slowly pour in 1/2 cup of boiling water in (it should immediately thicken up the liquid), with the hand whisk, slowly mix all the starch into the water. Pour in another 1/2 cup of boiling water and mix around, make sure you get all the dry starch at the bottom. It's very thick and uneven texture right now but it's just temporary. Pour in another 1/2 cup of boiling water in and mix well. Repeat this with the rest of the boiling water. It should slowly loosen up and turn into a translucent smooth jelly like consistency.
- divide mixture into individual containers (or paper plates) and add food coloring to each. Use a paint brush to mix the color around.
Another way to do this is to mix 1/2 cup of corn starch with 1 1/2 cup of cold water in pot. Put the pot on the stove, turn heat on to medium and continuously stir the mixture around until it reached your desired consistency. If too thick, add more water and stir well.
Enjoy !
