Get the Best Family Activities
YOU WILL NEED
plain moisturizer or body cream (not your finest eye serum)
an ice tray
a chopstick
cornflour
several colors of food coloring
paint brushes
a mirror
Put a little moisturizer into as many ice tray compartments as you are planning on coloring. Use the chopstick to mix in a little cornflour at a time. You want to thicken the mixture to a firm, paint-like consistency. If it’s too runny, add more cornflour; if too lumpy, add more moisturizer.
Drop a different food color into each compartment, remembering that natural colors require more, so you may need more cornflour to keep it paint-like.
Give the children brushes and a mirror, and let them go to town!
Artificial colors are more likely to leave a light stain on the skin, but it shouldn’t be more than a little soap and warm water can handle.
Recipe from Recipes for Play: Creative Activities for Small Hands and Big Imaginations, copyright © Rachel Sumner and Ruth Mitchener, 2014. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment. Available wherever books are sold.
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