I found this little gem of a recipe on the blogsite called:  Pocketful of Poises

There is the step by step instructions beautifully photographed on this site link so I won’t reduplicate it.

• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 1/3 cup cornstarch
• 2 cups cold water
• 1/4 cup liquid dish soap (white or clear)
• food colouring

1. Mix the sugar and cornstarch in a small pan
2. slowly add the cold water and mix thoroughly
3. Cook the mixture over low heat, stirring frequently, until smooth and gel like.  Once it starts to boil, turn off heat.  It will take at least 5 minutes to get to this point.
4. Add the dishwashing liquid and stir.
5. Divide the mixture into small containers.
6. Stir in individual food colouring into each container to get the desired colours you wish to have.

The texture of the paints are super for finger painting and can be used with paint brushes or sponges.  A Bibagogo is definitely needed! Let the children have fun and be a ‘Picasso, Degas or Matisse’!

Yes, your child’s hands may be a little stained post painting but it is safe and does wash off with hand washings.

Here is an easy prep for parents, fun for kids!  A paint that dries with a high-gloss finish.  Looks beautiful and gives a different look for your budding-artists.

• Condensed milk
• drops of food colour

THAT IS IT!

Just have a few small plastic kids bowls and divide condensed milk in them.  Drop some food colouring in each bowl to make a variety of colours.  Include your children in the decisions of what colours to put in which bowl.

Can use fingers, sponges, brushes to paint.

If you use drops of liquid tempera paint in place of food colouring, you will create brighter glossy colours.

This is seriously the easiest fingerpaint to make and exposes your child to new textures – smooth & sticky.  It dries in a nice glossy look.  This is one of the great recipes in The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions by John E. Thomas & Danita Pagel.
This is easy to make when away from home on vacation or at the lake cabin or overnight at grandma’s house.  Don’t have to pack kids’ paints/tempera etc.

• 2 Tablespoons light corn syrup
• 4-6 drops of food colouring

Mix corn syrup with food colouring in small bowls.
Can make a few different colours and let the children enjoy the mixing of colours.

TIP:  Have then do this fingerpaint in a bibagogo or  shirtless…messy and sticky but easy to clean up and fun.