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.
Marbling paper with oil and food coloring.
We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil.
Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.
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.
Spoons for stirring mixing the colors.
Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts.
Food coloring and oil.
The shaving foam not cream method is one of the easiest least expensive and most kid friendly methods of marbleizing paper.
Was the result worth it.
Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
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.
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.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.
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.
My four year old and i tried a pinterest inspired paper marbling technique using food dye and cooking oil.
The first time we worked on this we did it outside.
Liquid watercolors or food coloring.
It s messy but worth it.
Vegetable oil we also experimented with baby oil little bowls for individual colors.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.