I've been trying out lots of fun activities with our little girl this summer. She loved painting with watercolor so much, that I decided to try more traditional paints.
Recipe here (scroll to the bottom)
Flour Fingerpaint
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons salt
1 1/2 cups cold water
1 1/4 cups hot water
Food coloring or tempera paint
Directions
1. Put flour and salt in saucepan.
2. Add cold water and beat with whisk or eggbeater until smooth.
3. Add hot water and boil until mixture is thick.
4. Beat again until smooth.
5. Color as desired with food coloring or powdered tempera paint.
6. Store covered in refrigerator.
My little girl watched me while I cooked the paint, then she got to help make the colors!
She LOVED mixing the food colorings in.
Finally, it was time to paint!
She had to make sure that each paint brush matched the paint it was in as closely as possible...
Finally, we got around to some painting. I had to show her "how" to paint.
The paint didn't cover the paper quite as nicely as I would have liked. My daughter also wasn't as thrilled with this type of paint as she was with the water colors. I tried thinning out the paint the next time, but it didn't help her want to do it more. So the paints sat in our fridge for 6 weeks until I realized that they had started to grow mold. Yuck. I guess we need to buy non-perishable paint if we want to keep it around...
~Regina
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