I love art but I'm terrible at it. If there's anything that I did as badly as history, it would be art (okay maybe and social studies too?)
My drawings always end up looking way different from what's in my mind and my projects always looks like I didn't put in effort on them. *You will get to see my artwork at the end of the post and you will know I am not lying. lol.
I remember that when I was young my mother hates it when I paint cause the paints are so expensive and I always makes a mess. She would line newspaper on the floor and I would work on the newspaper, but somehow the paint will get on the floor, the walls and even on my face, hand, legs and hair. The newspaper would also give me dark patches on my hands and legs.
Oh don't get me started on the favourite paints always running out before the other colours. Or when you're painting and then you realise you run out of paint or the paint is so old that it has dried up..
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Fast forward 18 years, today I'm preparing paint for my little one to explore and play!
Just like the play dough that I blog about recently, this recipe for non toxic paint idea came from the mummies online too!
Using simple kitchen ingredients to make non toxic paint !
Materials:
- Flour (plain/all purpose flour)
- Salt
- Water (Warm-hot water)
- Cup/Bowl/Palette
- Something to stir
- A Sieve
- Food Colouring (I use Yellow, Blue and Red)
Steps:
1. Mix approximately 1/2 cup Flour and approx. 5 spoonful of Salt together.
2. Slowly add in 1/2 cup of water (I prefer to use warm-hot water) while stirring with (spoon/chopstick/anything)
Stop when you feel that it's just right (thick liquid just like paint)
3. Using a sieve, pour the liquid through the sieve to the container for the paint.
This step ensure that there is no lumps of flour in the mixture that is not mixed well.
4. Drop a few drops of food colouring in the mixture and stir it till the colour is even. If the colour is too light just add more food colouring. You can also mix the colours to get another colour. :)
Here are some photos in case you're not too fond of words..
Flour + Salt + Water
Remember to sieve it if you want a smother paint.
I use 3 small containers to store the paint as each time I make the paint I can use it for about 2 sessions of art and craft with my cutie pie.
Food Colouring
I let my toddler help me with stirring in the food colouring.
If the colour is not to my liking I would add more drops of food colouring.
and carrying on stirring..
3 Primary Colours
If we are doing painting with paint brushes I would pour them onto a palette for us.
It's good for making more colours too.
If we are doing sponging art I would use old paper plates
(yeah still I keep paper plates leftover from buffet in 2012-2013)
*For sponge I purchase the cheap ones from Daiso just for her to play.
Usually she gets to work on her own, sometimes I do a "sample" and she would attempt to follow.
Once it's done, sun it or just let it dry on it's own..
Hers look very watered down because she kept cleaning her brush in the small bowl of water I placed there for her to wash her brush.
I try to let her do her art on her own because that's how she would get to practise using her hands.
By the way we are actually painting a happy cartoon SUN, in case you can't tell..
Yeah.. I wasn't joking when I say my art is not very good...
Would you try this with your little one? Let me know? :)
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