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Homemade Paint for Kids

Homemade Paint for Kids
Home-Made Paint for Kids

Painted with Home-Made Kids’ Paint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Materials:

1 cup salt

1 cup flour

1 cup water

Food coloring

Mix the above ingredients and stir.

Add the food coloring and stir. Make paints in the primary colors first: red, yellow and blue.

Paper

Project:

Mix primary colors to make the secondary colors if you can’t find any of the secondary colors in food coloring bottles in the grocery store. Even if you can find the secondary colors, it’s fun to make your own.

The secondary colors are:

yellow + red = orange

blue + yellow = green

red + blue = purple

Using fingers or brushes, paint a beautiful painting!

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Tissue Paper Flowers

Tissue Paper Flowers

 

Materials:

Tissue paper in a variety of colors including complimentary colors if you can find them

Scissors

Chenille stems or pipe cleaner

Ruler

Vase or tall empty container

Chop sticks or dowel rods

 

  1. Stack two pieces of one color tissue paper and two pieces of another color tissue paper.
  2. Make a one-inch fold at the short end. Turn the stack over and make a one-inch fold again. Continue to fold back and forth until the entire stack forms a strip (like an accordion).
  3. Fold the stack in the middle and cut it in half.
  4. Round off the corners of each strip.
  5. Wrap a pipe cleaner around the middle of a strip and twist it tightly.
  6. Fan out the tissue and pull on one layer at strip of papers at a time.
  7. Repeat steps 4 -6 with the second strip.
  8. VARIATION: Using the complimentary colored tissue papers, stack two pieces of blue and two pieces of orange and repeat steps 1 – 7.
  9. Continuing to use complimentary color combinations, stack two pieces of purple and two pieces of yellow tissue paper and follow steps 1 – 7.the chop sticks
  10. Using red and green, stack two pieces of each color and follow steps 1 – 7
  11. When finished making the flowers, attach them to the chop sticks or dowel rods using the pipe cleaners. Put them in a vase or jar and decorate your favorite room.
  12. Attach the various color combination flowers to gifts or the covers of photo albums and journals. Paper flowers have lots of uses!
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