Take your at-home painting game to the next level.
With today’s at home activity, you can combine a few easy-to-find ingredients to make your own textured paint. Your little ones will satisfy their inner chemist by creating their own paints, then use those paints to create three-dimensional works of art.
It’s an easy, fun, win-win art activity for your whole family.
Bump-It-Up Paint
What you’ll need:
Bottle of shaving cream
White school glue
White flour
Food coloring
Measuring cups
Paint brushes
Stiff paper or cardboard (the back side of a cereal or snack box works best)
How to:
Make your paint:
Measure ¾ cup of shaving cream and put into large mixing bowl
Measure ¼ cup of glue and add to shaving cream, slowing folding the two together
Measure ¼ cup of white flour and add to mixture, folding in until mixed
Separate the mixture into small bowls and stir a different food coloring in each
Create pictures: Use paintbrushes, sponges or your fingers to apply the paint. You can build up surfaces with large blobs of the paint. Use different thicknesses to show how something might seem closer or farther away.
Find a safe place to let your paintings dry. Thicker areas may take overnight to dry.
Cleanup:
Clean up right away if you can by rinsing everything in the sink. Otherwise you’ll need to soak everything in a bowl or tub of water.