Let me tell you... SO EASY, and fun, and quick, and I'm so excited to give these paints to my daughter, nieces and nephew for christmas this year. I'm giving them all a set of brushes, so the paints don't have to be used as finger paints!
So excited! Hah.
Thanks to you Tiffany!
I thought I'd take some photos of my process and share it with you.
This is the recipe:
3 tsp. Sugar
1/2 tsp. Salt
1/2 cup Corn Starch
2 cups of warm water
You combine the ingredients in a saucepan (I combined the dry ingredients and mixed first), warm until mixture thickens, pull off of heat, and let cool (doesn't take long!) and then add food colouring.
I found that my gel food colouring worked so much better than the liquid. I had to use a lot more of the liquid, and it wasn't nearly as vibrant as the gel.
Here are the pictures of my fun!
Water (ooo! exciting):
Mixing together over heat:
Cooled, right before I add the colour:
Pink:
Blue (The first wasn't dark enough for my liking, so then I added some purple to darken it):
Red:
Green:
Yellow:
For some reason I didn't get pictures of the red, green, and purple mixed up in my pyrex dish - sorry!
This is my finished product!
The colours aren't as true to life in the pyrex dish as they are in the canning jars.
