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by Deborah Shelton
In a child's mind, any time is a good time to paint. With these easy-to-make and easy-to-clean paint recipes, adults will have to agree.
1. Easy Face Paint
This is the easiest to make (and easiest to clean) recipe for face paint. Separate colors with a muffin tin or an egg carton. Place a spoonful of cold cream into each cup. Add 1 or 2 drops of different colors of food coloring to the cold cream, and stir. Apply the face paint using a clean paintbrush or cotton swabs.
2. Spiffy-Sniffy Watercolors
Your artwork will smell terrific with this simple watercolor recipe. Use a small cup for each color. Mix one package of powdered drink mix (Kool-Aid) with 2 tablespoons of warm water for each color. Stir until the powder dissolves. Once all of the colors are prepared, use a clean paintbrush to paint sweet-smelling pictures.
3. Window Paint
Turn your windows, patio doors and mirrors into works of art. Mix together equal parts dishwashing liquid and washable liquid paint or powdered tempera. Children will love the process of painting and adults will love the end result: the paint wipes off easily with a dry paper towel.
4. Foamy Bath Paint
Encourage children to paint undersea adventure scenes while taking their evening baths. To make bath paints, simply mix together shaving cream with a drop of food coloring. Dip a paintbrush, or better yet, your fingers, into the mix and start creating!
Fun Tip:
To level the playing field between painters of different
ages and artistic abilities, place paintbrushes between
your toes and paint with your feet!
About the Author:
Deborah Shelton is a mother, freelance writer, and author
of the brand new book, "The Five Minute Parent: Fun & Fast
Activities for You and Your Little Ones."
Thank you so much for your thoughtful and creative advice. It is very much appreciated.
i think this is a good resource because i have to do a project for church and this website helped alot. if you havent tried any of these projects you should try it will be really fun.
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im in a pre-school learing class and i have to come up with new idea's to teach the kids and i thought of using shaving cream thats in our cabinet and food coloring. i made some cool colors but the food coloring stained my hands no way was i going to let the kids do that. so what i did, was instead of using food coloring you can use powdered tempera it workes just the same and it also give the color a more brighter look. i have not tried this yet but when i am head teacher again im sure the kids will love it. thanks alot. if you get to try it out before i do. let me know how it turns out.
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