There are several options here: Each of these has a different textured
quality and provides a different sensory experience.
A. Mix liquid dish soap, and tempera paint to make finger paint. The
mixture should be 3 parts paint to 1 part dish soap.
B. Soap paint:
Whip Ivory Snow flakes with water and food coloring using a hand mixer.
Place in bowls for fingerpainting.
C. Flour and Salt fingerpaint:
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups salt
3/4 cup water
food coloring
Mix together, put in bowls for painting. You may have to add more flour or
water to get the consistency you want.
D. Flour Fingerpaint
3 cups flour
2 tbs liquid soap
2 cups water
food coloring (or tempera paint)
Pour eace of the first 3 ingredients into a big mixing bowl. Mix well. Mix
in color.
E. Rice Paint
Depending on how much you want to make, add equal parts Elmer's glue, and
finger paint to a mixing bowl. Add in uncooked rice. Have your child paint
on paper with it. The glue will help the rice *stick* to the paper.
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