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

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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.

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  1. 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 😀

  2. What a fun project! Thanks for sharing! I’m going to share your link with my facebook friends!

  3. 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!

  4. look great !! it’s raining today, that will be perfect this afternoon with my triplet !
    thank you for your great blog !

  5. Hey, that is great summer fun! What kid could ever say “I’m bored!” with that around?!

  6. What if you don’t have self-raising flour? Can you use regular flour with something added?

  7. love ur blog…just started a photography and design business….would you mind if i linked ur blog to my site?

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