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.
Marbling paper with food coloring and oil.
And because it uses foam instead of water there s less chance of your pigment settling to the bottom of the pan.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.
Vegetable oil we also experimented with baby oil little bowls for individual colors.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.
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.
It s messy but worth it.
Was the result worth it.
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.
The first time we worked on this we did it outside.
Liquid watercolors or food coloring.
My four year old and i tried a pinterest inspired paper marbling technique using food dye and cooking oil.
Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.
It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have.
Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts.
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.
We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with 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.
Food coloring and oil.
I had to try it to find out.