Kids Activity: Edible Homemade Finger Paint

May 26, 2020

Finger paint is a great activity to do with toddlers! Here are our instructions to make your own edible, homemade version with ingredients you already have at home.

ingredients to make finger paint include flour, salt, food coloring and sugar

Supplies:

Flour
Sugar
Salt
Food coloring
Plastic cups

scooping sugar in to a grey pan

Add 2 T of sugar into a sauce pan.

adding flour to the sugar in the pan

Add 1/3 cup of flour to the saucepan as well

whisking a white gooey mixture together in the pot

Mix with 2 cups of water and whisk until smooth. Turn on the heat and stir continually until the mixture thickens

the white slimey mixture is dispensed in to four cups

Pour into your plastic cups equally. You’ll one cup for every color of paint you’d like to make.

red food coloring is dropped in to the white slime mixture

Mix in a couple drops of food coloring and stir until completely dissolved. Let cool completely before allowing your little toddler to stick their fingers in and get dirty!

Born and raised a New Yorker, but now happy to call the fairytale city of San Francisco home with her husband and son, Liz blogs daily about beautiful things and creations over at Say Yes when she's not digging for treasures at local thrift stores, working on a new craft, or picnicing in Golden Gate Park. On the weekends, she loves to spend time with her outdoors enthusiast family, traveling and backpacking through the West's mountains and deserts.