Marbling Paper With Vegetable Oil

The first time we worked on this we did it outside.

Marbling paper with vegetable oil.

Also see if you can find the hidden mickey. We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil. Water vegetable oil food coloring tray 3 containers directions. It s messy but worth it.

Put about 1 2 tablespoon of cooking oil into a small bowl. We used baby oil in addition to vegetable oil and discovered that no matter what oil it still repels against water. It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have. Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.

We used mead s academie wirebound sketch diary paper. 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. Lift the paper to reveal your marbled paper. 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.

Having the best oil paints can make creating these easier. In anticipation for this visit we made lists of possible crafts and paper marbling appeared on both lists. We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go. All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.

Blend a tablespoon of vegetable oil. If you used different oils did you notice a difference. Paper you will want to use something a little thicker than regular paper.