Foamy Finger Paint
What you need:
1 bar ivory soap
½ cup water, soap dye, or food coloring
What you need:
1 bar ivory soap
½ cup water, soap dye, or food coloring
Mixing bowl
Whisk
Small dishes for separating
colors
Grate the soap into the bowl and add the water.
Whisk until it is the texture of shaving cream, about 2 minutes. The longer you mix the smoother the final paint will be.
If you want to make more than one color you need to separate the soap into several dishes at this point.
Add a few drops of your choice of coloring agent to each container and mix well. For something a little different, mix the color only half way to give a marbling effect.
We set out sheets of freezer paper and let the kiddos go at it. When they had painted their little hearts out, clean-up was a cinch, we just had an early bath time. And the best part, they were already pre-soaped.
My teenagers had a great time with this project as well. They discovered that if they painted something then scraped the extra foam off the paper had a rainbowed marble effect which they could then paint something on top.
In addition, we need to give huge props to Ivory soap for really being able to get things clean. We found when color mixing that yellow and blue made green, pink and yellow made orange, but when you mixed all three together for long enough, it turned white again.
The first time we made this paint we wanted to use it as a bath tub paint but were hesitant about using food dye on the tub grout. Instead we took a Crayola tub tint and completely dissolved it in about a tablespoon of water then added it to the foam. This worked wonders.
If you manage to have any foam left over it stores wonderful in any airtight container. And on a final note, although it looks like yummy, sweet, and sugary cotton candy. My little ones tell me it doesn't taste so hot.
Enjoy!
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