Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
Marbling paper with vegetable oil.
Blend a tablespoon of vegetable oil.
Also see if you can find the hidden mickey.
The first time we worked on this we did it outside.
In anticipation for this visit we made lists of possible crafts and paper marbling appeared on both lists.
But it was a long fun day.
We d seen several methods but we had almost all the supplies to marble with oil paints so we decided to try that out first.
We purposely left ours in there a few hours our toddler loved dunking the paper in the water.
Having the best oil paints can make creating these easier.
Learn how to make marble paper.
Lift the paper to reveal your marbled paper.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.
It s messy but worth it.
Paper you will want to use something a little thicker than regular paper.
We used mead s academie wirebound sketch diary paper.
Water vegetable oil food coloring tray 3 containers directions.
If you used different oils did you notice a difference.
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 used baby oil in addition to vegetable oil and discovered that no matter what oil it still repels against water.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.