The craftiest mum out there, Melissa, from One Crafty Mumma is sharing her amazing recipe for puffy paint! Too cool!
Melissa writes…
How To Make Homemade Puffy Paint
This is really cool and super quick/easy. Combine the following in a little bowl:
- 1 tablespoon self-raising flour
- a few little drops of food colouring
- 1 tablespoon salt
Then add some water to make a nice smooth paste.
Paint away on a nice thick sheet of cardboard (if you don’t have enough paint brushes use cotton buds – they work really well).
Microwave the design on high for 10 – 30 seconds until the paint puffs and it’s all nice and dry. We did ours for 30 seconds.
Great idea for this summer!! 😉
we made it this morning! it was so much fun! thanks!
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Thanks for this great idea! We did this as part of our “Mommy Camp” and had a fabulous time 😉 Here’s the link to our experience: http://www.mymidlifecreativities.org/2010/07/mommy-camp-at-shaggyhill-farm-where_05.html
Thanks again!
Aimee
Thanks so much for this great idea!! My daughter was seriously craving some mommy time this afternoon while her sister was napping. We pulled out the ingredients (easy-peasy!!), and had a wonderful time crafting together! No preparation, no stress, just opened the pantry and got busy! Thank you so much 😀
Amazing!! I love it!
What a fun project! Thanks for sharing! I’m going to share your link with my facebook friends!
My kids and I just tried this. It was super easy and fun!
Here’s a recipe for self-rising flour if you don’t keep any on hand (like me)…
One cup self-rising flour equals:
1 cup all-purpose flour, plus
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder, plus
1/8 teaspoons salt.
Can’t wait to try this for craft day today w/ my gaggle of girls! Its gonna be a gigglefest, for sure!
how cute! my oldest son would get a kick out of this.
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Love this idea!
look great !! it’s raining today, that will be perfect this afternoon with my triplet !
thank you for your great blog !
Hey, that is great summer fun! What kid could ever say “I’m bored!” with that around?!
What if you don’t have self-raising flour? Can you use regular flour with something added?
oh cool. will have to try this with dd.
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