We love making our own art and craft recipes here on Growing a Jeweled Rose.
Today, we tried combining a few common ingredients to make gingerbread paint, and the results were just too fun! Read on for the easy tutorial.
Skip the store and make your art aupplies at home! The process is fun, and kids love creating with materials that they made themselves! For a full list of our recipes be sure to visit our play collection.
How to Make Gingerbread Paint for Kids
Recipe
Method
- Begin by combining roughly equal parts of shaving cream and school glue in a large mixing bowl.
- Add several drops of brown food coloring if rich color is desired, and then add the spices and mix well.
- We did not measure the spices. We just sprinkled them in. However, we did use more cinnamon than clove and ginger, and that gave us the perfect gingerbread scent.
- Mix until all ingredients are combined.
That's it! Add buttons and kids are sure to have a blast making gingerbread men that dry puffy and raised!
Once the paint is dry it is so fun to touch! Hang gingerbread creations at child level, and kids will delight in smelling their puffy works of art!
Extend the Fun
- Make gingerbread clay.
- Make gingerbread slime.
- Make gingerbread man ornaments.
- Turn a clay pot into a gingerbread house.
- Make your own stuffed gingerbread man.
- Use sponges to paint gingerbread.
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