Recently I bought a pack of Crayola washable and non-toxic
paint and I’m sure many of you have done the same. The pack cost around £5 for
four 240ml bottles, which was the cheapest I could fine online at the time. No
doubt we’ll soon get through the paints, so I think we’ll try making our own paint
again. I previously tried a finger paint recipe, but the end product was just
too thick for painting, even though we still had some fun and got creative with
the brightly coloured mush. Since then, I’ve found an alternative homemade
paint recipe, which I used to represent ice cream sauce at messy play last
week. The consistency looked ideal for painting with a brush and uses just
three ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen.
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| Image by Prawny via Morguefile |
If you’d like to give this paint a go too, see the recipe below
and save the next squeezy bottle of ketchup or mayonnaise you finish for
storing your paint. The recipe makes around 400ml of paint, so a 500ml bottle
is ideal if you’re making just one colour. For a gluten-free version, you can
replace wheat flour with cornflour.
1.
Mix one cup each of flour, salt and water in a
jug, stirring well to produce a thin paste
2.
Add food colouring of your choice and mix,
adding a little at a time to reach the shade you’re after
3.
Pour into your bottle, using a funnel, if you
have one, to avoid spills
Enjoy!
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