Marble Painting With Milk

Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process.

Marble painting with milk.

Pour a 1 2 inch layer of almond milk into a casserole dish. Try different milk types we have used almond and cow s milk for this experiment and both worked well. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. One of the most popular posts here on babble dabble do has been milk painting and i can see why the process makes really wild and beautiful designs.

Cut a piece of 8 1 2 x 11 piece of paper in quarters and place each piece face down lightly in the colored milk and let dry. So our first milk paint project was giving an old dresser a makeover. Milk paint comes in powder form so you mix it with water. It is a classic kid s science activity rainbow milk fireworks with the added process art activity of marbling paper.

Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit. Almond cow rice coconut. Milk paint is always non toxic which is a huge bonus. A fun experiment would be to compare the results with different types of milk.

To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Each piece will be a very unique marbled piece of art with no two alike. How to water marble with acrylic paint. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors.

This dresser was given to us from my aunt and uncle and it easily dated back to the 1950s. Make sure not to push the paper too far into the milk and soak think of it as laying the paper on top of the milk. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Rainbow milk marbled paper art is such a cool kids craft activity and it is great as it really is science meets art.

You can use any type of milk but cow s milk may result in a sour smell so we d recommend sticking with almond 2. As you might have guessed we have been exploring marbles and you just can t explore marbles without including a little marble painting in your planning.