Marbling Paper With Oil And Food Coloring

We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.

Marbling paper with oil and food coloring.

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. 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. Vegetable oil we also experimented with baby oil little bowls for individual colors.

Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful. Liquid watercolors or food coloring. 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. We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil.

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. Was the result worth it. Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts. And because it uses foam instead of water there s less chance of your pigment settling to the bottom of the pan.

Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical. I had to try it to find out. All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper. Spoons for stirring mixing the colors.

Food coloring and 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. 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. It s messy but worth it.