Follow the following recipe to learn how to make your own homemade eco-friendly finger paints:
Homemade Non-Toxic Finger Paints
What you need to gather:
1.1/3 cup grated natural, organic, pure soap – liquid soap won’t work as well. You can use an old thrift store cheese grater or potato peeler to grate your soap
2.1 cup water.
3.1 cup cornstarch.
4.Your natural dyes.
To make:
1.Add 1/2 cup water to your cornstarch and mix.
2.Boil the other 1/2 cup of water and pour over soap.
3.Stir the soap and water until the soap melts.
4.Pour soap mix into the cornstarch mix and blend together with a spoon.
5.Let your mixture sit around and thicken – it shouldn’t take long. Once it’s finger paint thick, pour into separate bowls, and stir in your dye to each of the bowls.
You can keep this for about 2-3 weeks, but store in the fridge. This paint works well on glossy finger pain paper, regular paper, and newsprint.
This recipe is by tree hugging family. Please visit their website to view the entire article.
If you prefer to buy eco-friendly finger paints instead of making them then check out Natural Finger Paint For Kids at kidbean.com. These finger paints are hemp-based vegan paints, and are made in Germany and by Livos. Ingredients in their paints include water, mineral pigments (from iron oxides or naturally colored earth), hemp oil (from biodynamically grown German hemp seed), methyl cellulose, extract of gentian roots, food-grade preservative (Benzalkonium Chloride). Each finger paints set contains 6 glass bottles of paint: white, yellow, red, blue, green and black.
I love this recipe. It is simple to make and I have the ingredients at home! Thank you for sharing. I think all my kids will like this one.
I think I will have to try this recipe out…why kids…even i can use these homemade paints for my paintings…:)
My sons will love this. I can see them painting each other now. I am definitely going to see if I have the ingredients to try this one. Thank you for sharing this idea.
Aww, that’s really cool. I bet the kids would love to try this out.
I have tried these finger paints with my grandsons. They loved them and we had a lot of fun.
My students have a fondness for drawing on themselves with markers, even permanent marker on occasion! This will provide a safer alternative. They just finshed learning about how mineral pigments were once used for cave paintings.