We have been having lots of fun exploring with sand! Today, we combined a few ingredients to make sand paint. Read on for the easy recipe tutorial.
How to Make Sand Paint for Kids
Materials
Method
- Begin by adding 1-2 cups of play sand to a cup/bowl, using one container for each color of paint that you wish to make.
- Add several drops of food coloring to each container. Then, slowly begin to add shaving foam and mix, slowly adding more foam and mixing until the desired paint consistency is reached.
- You can add more or less of the ingredients to create different textures.
- That's it! After a bit of mixing you will be left with super squishy, sand paint!
Painting with Sand
- Give kids paper and brushes, and they will have a blast making puffy works of art.
Extend the Fun
- Make shaving cream slime with sand.
- Make glow-in-the-dark sand.
- Make aqua sand.
- Make quicksand!
- Make your own kinetic sand.
- Make a sand volcano.
- Try this recipe using colored sand.
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Colorful and fun process art! From squirting the shaving cream to squeezing in the food coloring & adding the sand, the process of making this paint was just too fun!
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