How to make finger-type paints

How to make finger-type paints

Finger-type paints can be used for drawing with children of the earliest age. It is possible not only to buy such paints in shop, but also to prepare. The prepared paints are absolutely safe for health, even in case your child decides to try what they on taste. There are several ways of production of self-made finger-type paints.

It is required to you

  • For the first recipe:
  • - corn starch - 250 g;
  • - water - 750 g;
  • - food colorings.
  • For the second recipe:
  • - flour - 500 g;
  • - salt - 5 tablespoons;
  • - vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
  • - water;
  • - food colorings.
  • For the third recipe:
  • - starch - 80 g;
  • - sugar - 2 tablespoons;
  • - water - 500 ml;
  • - means for washing of ware - 50 ml;
  • - food colorings.
  • For the fourth recipe:
  • - shaving foam;
  • - gouache.

Instruction

1. Try to make finger-type paints according to the following recipe. Boil a small amount of water. In other ware dissolve corn starch. Remove the boiling water from fire and add the divorced starch. Put all this back on fire and you boil before solidification about 1 minute. After cooling spread out mix on jars, add food colorings and carefully stir.

2. Look at other recipe. Take necessary amount of flour, salt and vegetable oil, mix everything. Add water that weight on consistence similar to dense sour cream turned out to the received mix. Mix everything the mixer. Spread out the turned-out weight on banks and add food colorings.

3. Pay attention to one recipe for finger-type paints. Mix starch with sugar, add cold water there. Put all this on slow fire approximately for 5 minutes, constantly stirring slowly. Wait for that weight became translucent and gel. After that remove from fire and wait before full cooling. Add to this mix means for washing of ware, thanks to it the received paints will be easily washed away. Then spread out on jars and add multi-colored food colorings.

4. Study the most original recipe for such paints. Take the most ordinary shaving foam. Place a small amount in some capacity and add usual gouache. Drawings such paints turn out very interesting and beautiful, but it should be noted that the finger-type paints prepared according to such recipe approach only for children over three years. It is possible to draw them only in case adults are sure that the child will not taste them.

5. If there are no food colorings near at hand, then try to add instead of them juice of such vegetables as carrots, spinach and beet.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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