Homemade Edible Finger
Paint Recipes
Some non toxic alternatives for some great creative pursuits:
Recipes from The Imagination Tree
Ingredients
2 cups of
corn flour/ starch
1 cup of
cold water
4.5 cups
of boiling water
Liquid food colouring
Method:
Mix the cornflour with the cold water and stir together. Pour in the boiling water and stir between each cup. It goes really strange (you are basically mixing a hot oobleck goop) but keep stirring and it literally seems to “melt” into a wonderful, custard-like consistency. We then separated it into individual jam jars before adding colouring, but you can do it however you like and this is the stage to add colour.
Mix the cornflour with the cold water and stir together. Pour in the boiling water and stir between each cup. It goes really strange (you are basically mixing a hot oobleck goop) but keep stirring and it literally seems to “melt” into a wonderful, custard-like consistency. We then separated it into individual jam jars before adding colouring, but you can do it however you like and this is the stage to add colour.
Edited to
add:
Some people have found that the paint remains liquid and doesn’t thicken up as it should. I have no idea why this should be, but I have two possible solutions:
Some people have found that the paint remains liquid and doesn’t thicken up as it should. I have no idea why this should be, but I have two possible solutions:
1. Try simply adding up to 1 more
cup of cornflour/ cornstarch and see if that helps to thicken it.
2. Try mixing the paint in a pan on a medium heat instead of just in a bowl, as that will help to bring it together.
2. Try mixing the paint in a pan on a medium heat instead of just in a bowl, as that will help to bring it together.
Jello Finger Paint
From the Imagination Tree
Directions:
Tip one sachet of each flavor fruit jello powder into a little dish.
Stir in some hot (not boiling) water and mix with a spoon until it becomes thin enough to be like finger-paint consistency. Experiment with the quantity of water to add in order for it not to set. I’d say we filed these little dishes about half full of water (around just less than half a cup.) Start with one and then when you’re happy with the consistency, move onto the others.
Stir all of the paints again to keep them from setting, then set them out with a range of brushes and some large pieces of paper (which can be taped down to the table to keep them in place.)
Then explore with fingers and taste buds!
[Note: obviously babies shouldn't be encouraged to eat large quantities of this paint, but a few tastes are not harmful at all.]
