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August 2007 PowerKids
Paint from a bag
Make your own texturized paint
With a few ingredients from the kitchen and a zipper top sandwich bag, you can make your own texturized paint.
You’ll need:
• salt,
• flour,
• a zip-type, or tight-sealing sandwich bag,
• water,
• food coloring,
• scissors,
• heavy paper.
Here’s what to do next:
Pour about 1/2 cup salt and 1/8 cup flour into the sandwich bag. Add 1/8 cup water to the bag, zip it shut and squeeze and mix everything together by pressing on the bag with your fingers. Drop in a few drops of food coloring, zip the bag together again and press on the bag again. Add more food coloring if you want your paint to be darker. Your paint should have a jelly-like consistency. Add a little bit more water if necessary.
Snip one of the bottom corners of the bag with a pair of scissors. Now, squeeze the paint out of the bag onto heavy paper to make abstract, free-flowing. three-dimensional designs. (Add a few drops more water if its difficult to squeeze the paint out.) What you’ll be doing is actually similar to what a baker does with a pastry bag when he or she decorates a cake.
Let your paintings dry overnight. If you have extra paint in the bags, place the bags in containers with plastic lids and refrigerate up to three days. Squeeze the bag to mix the paint around before using it again.
Written By: eceditor
Date Posted: 7/19/2007
Number of Views: 407
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