Marbling Paper With Oil And Food Coloring

Spoons for stirring mixing the colors.

Marbling paper with oil and food coloring.

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. Was the result worth it. Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical. 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.

And because it uses foam instead of water there s less chance of your pigment settling to the bottom of the pan. The shaving foam not cream method is one of the easiest least expensive and most kid friendly methods of marbleizing paper. 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. Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.

It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have. Food coloring and oil. Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts. All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.

Liquid watercolors or food coloring. The first time we worked on this we did it outside. Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful. 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. It s messy but worth it. We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil. My four year old and i tried a pinterest inspired paper marbling technique using food dye and cooking oil.