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S started painting with fingerpaints at around 12 months old. I knew I wanted to try starting X earlier - just to see what he'd do with it. I nosed around online at edible safe baby paints and they were all so expensive! So I thought I'd try making my own. Surprisingly, it was very easy, and actually quite pretty as well!
For the green paint:
A handful of spinach
About 1/2 cup of dry baby cereal
Just enough almond milk to thin it out (you could use water if you're not sure of baby allergies, but the almond milk gave it a pretty shine)
For the purple paint:
5 blueberries
About 1/2 cup of dry baby cereal
Just enough almond milk to thin it out
I had to show him how to dip his fingers in. Here he's around 9 months old.
He really is fascinated by paper, so it worked well - he would explore the paper with a painted hand and kind of paint!
He got a little messy....
....but then sister wanted to paint him and he got VERY messy.
He really was interested in exploring the paper and the containers more than the paint, but I think he did have fun - and his sister had a blast painting with him!
I think I'll keep trying him with the paint every couple of weeks until it "clicks" for him. But it definitely hadn't by 9 months! A fun experiment, nonetheless!
Just a quick update to say that we've also had success with making pink paint (2-3 small pieces of cooked beet with the baby cereal and almond milk); orange paint (2-3 chunks of cooked carrots or cooked sweet potato with the baby cereal and almond milk), and yellow paint (5-6 chunks of cooked butternut squash with the baby cereal and almond milk)!
We also have recipes for Edible Scented Fingerpaints and Shaving Cream Paints!
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Hi, can you tell me what you mean by 'dry baby cereal'? Do you mean baby rice, or baby porridge or baby wheat flakes? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Helen! Any of those would work. We used a cereal that was a mix of several different grains, but depending on your baby's age/allergies, it could be any of the rice/oatmeal/wheat cereals. Hope that helps!
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