Tuesday, February 8, 2011

puffy paint

 

Lucas enjoyed working with puffy paint yesterday, I knew he would since the viscosity is somewhat similar to glue… and he loves glue!

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I made a batch and separated it into three different colours, I used old shampoo bottles and an old glue bottle. Lucas preferred the glue bottle since it was smaller and easier for his little hands to squeeze.

 

To make puffy paint:

    • 1cup of flour
    • 1cup of salt
    • 1cup of water
    • empty squeeze containers
    • 1 Tablespoon tempera paint –as many colours as you want

Mix the first 3 ingredients together in a big bowl.

Divide the mix out into smaller containers – one for each colour

Add 1 Tbsp of tempera and mix well. Adjust the colour by add another tsp of paint until desired colour s reached

Pour into squeeze bottle – a funnel will make this easier or you can spoon the mixture.

Give the child the bottles and watch them get to work!

 

* this paint does not work well on construction/craft paper. Instead use matte board or card board, we used and old cereal box cut up!

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3 comments:

  1. What a great idea. I'm going tomorrow to buy some tempera paint

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  2. Definitely going to try it! Love the look on his face. Very intense concentration! Great activity! Kerri

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  3. hey...Definitely going to try it! Love the look on his face.

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