It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have.
Marbling paper with oil and food coloring.
The first time we worked on this we did it outside.
Vegetable oil we also experimented with baby oil little bowls for individual colors.
Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
Food coloring and oil.
My four year old and i tried a pinterest inspired paper marbling technique using food dye and cooking oil.
The idea that you could transfer a swirly pattern of colours onto a piece of paper just by pressing the paper into a pan of shaving cream kind of perplexed me.
Sep 3 2019 marbling with oil and food coloring is one of the easiest ways to marble paper and it uses materials you likely already have at home.
The shaving foam not cream method is one of the easiest least expensive and most kid friendly methods of marbleizing paper.
It s messy but worth it.
I had to try it to find out.
Kai enjoyed mixing the pans of water oil and coloring but then i m pretty sure that he would have enjoyed it just as much on a small scale like a small bowl or maybe even in a jar.
Spoons for stirring mixing the colors.
Was the result worth it.
Apr 17 2018 marbling with oil and food coloring is one of the easiest ways to marble paper and it uses materials you likely already have at home.
Liquid watercolors or food coloring.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.
We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil.
Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.
We also used some little condiment cups with lids to mix our oil and food coloring but you could use any container with a lid.