All it takes is an afternoon and a few supplies that you may already have in your home.
Make marbled paper food colouring.
It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have.
You simply press a piece of paper into shaving cream swirled with liquid watercolours and the colours and patterns are transferred to the paper making it look marbleized.
The colored foam layer will add a background color to your marbled prints.
Replace with a fresh batch of white shaving foam.
Let the mixture cool and spray a thin layer onto your cotton paper.
Hang the paper over a clothesline or drying rack colored side up.
It is creative and easy so they can participate and get engaged.
How to make rainbow milk marbled paper art i have done this milk fireworks activity with the boys a number of times but never with the extension activity of marbling the paper.
This time at 10 and 11 they really understood the science behind the activity and rather than it just being a fun activity it reinforced learning.
Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
Creating marbled paper is simpler than you might think.
This applies to science because the polarity of shaving cream keeps it from bonding with the food coloring leaving an interesting marbled effect.
You can do the same kind if thing with food coloring shaving cream and paper.
Once the starch surface is looking mostly clear.
We will be making homemade holiday cards and birthday cards using this rea.
It s messy but worth it.
We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil.
The process is fascinating and really easy.
Add 2 tablespoons of alum and mix well.
Fill a spray bottle with warm water.
Repeat with several additional sheets of paper.
Continue reusing the foam until the color gets too dark or muddy.
Same as putting food coloring and then oil in a bottle.
Once dry the paper will be permanently marbled.
First prep your paper.
Create a new decoration.
Lay flat to dry.
You can experiment with all kinds of color combinations and patterns to create one of a kind pieces of art.
Hang the paper up to dry.
If you decide to do this with your kids choose the shaving cream and food color method as it is safest.
This might be a but too much fit little kids though.
Make sure to mark the side that you sprayed because it can be hard to tell once it s dried.
11 make more marbled prints.
How to make marbled paper.
Diy marbleized paper that is fun and easy.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.
Today i ll show you how to make marbled paper with shaving cream and liquid watercolours.