Eco-Friendly Finger Paints

Looking for an activity for your older baby? How about finger paints? What about eco-friendly finger paints? Now, how about eco-friendly homemade finger paints? Finger paints, though messy, can really occupy our little ones. What is great is the fact that if you don't want to make your own eco-friendly paints you can buy them. So, now that I have your attention, and if you are interested in making and or buying eco-friendly paints for your older baby then please look over the rest of this article, and don't forget to have fun while you're at it!



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.