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Homemade Watercolor Paints


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February 22, 2017

Homemade Watercolor Paint RecipeI volunteer at an daycare center for mentally handicapped adults and wanted them to experience painting.

Since watercolor trays have very little paint in each cell I researched and found recipes to make my own watercolors!

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We all really enjoyed painting paper plates and plan on doing it again soon!

Total Time: 15 minutes to mix, plus 1 day to dry

Yield: a dozen individual cells

Source: happyhooligans.com

Supplies:

  • 4 Tbsp baking soda
  • 2 Tbsp white vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp light or golden corn syrup
  • 2 Tbsp cornstarch
  • 4 each drops food coloring
  • 1 egg carton, small muffin tin, or ice cube tray
Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - supplies
 

Steps:

  1. In a 2 cup measuring cup mix baking soda and vinegar. It will fizz awhile, just wait for it to stop.
  2. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - mixing vinegar and baking soda
     
  3. Add corn syrup and corn starch to the mixture and mix well until the corn starch has dissolved into the mixture. It will become this strange feeling mixture, not totally wet nor totally dry. Like Oobleck!
  4. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - adding corn syrup
     
    Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - adding corn starch
     
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  5. I placed one teaspoon into each egg carton well. You may use small muffin tins or even ice cube trays if you prefer. You may certainly double that mixture for thicker little paint cubes with fewer cells. I was experimenting!
  6. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - spoon into egg carton cups
     
  7. I added 4 drops of food coloring to each cell just because I wanted vibrant colors. You may choose to make yours more pastel with a drop or two less.
  8. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - add food color
     
  9. Mix the paint and dye well with a toothpick, Popsicle stick, or small demitasse spoon.
  10. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - mixed colors
     
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  11. Then I just set it aside for 24 hours. I did peek occassionaly and they looked great! At the end I could actually pop the paint out of the egg carton cells.
  12. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - after drying you can remove the paint from the egg carton in chunks
     
  13. They worked great! I painted this picture using them!
  14. Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe - paints and a picture paints using them
     

2 More Solutions

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August 10, 2004

These watercolor paints are easy to make.

 
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February 27, 2017

When your colored markers get dried up, there is still a great way to some more fun craft uses out of them. This is a page about making watercolor paints with dried up markers.

Making Watercolor Paints with Dried Up Markers

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