Homemade Finger Paints
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Art & Healing, Child Centered Activities, In the Kitchen 1 CommentA great recipe I found online – with my own tweaks added in:
2 TB sugar
1/3 C cornstarch
2 C cold water
1/4 C clear liquid dish soap
food coloring or food gel
Mix sugar with cornstarch and slowly add water. Cook over medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until mixture thickens and becomes semi-translucent. Once cooled, add dish soap (helps keep colors from staining – though still take precautions with clothes, etc.), then portion into desired containers and mix in the colors. In addition to fingers and paintbrush, collect some non-traditional tools (feathers, sticks, Q-tips, etc.) for your little one to explore with.
an Art Farm 
hallelujah to mother and child, and to mother creativity and daughter dive-in. this is heavenly, this abandonment of constraint, of coloring way outside the line. of faith in detergent. of faith in the art-making. our children are our teachers in so many ways….hallelujah. love. auntie baps