Marble Painting With Milk

Pour a 1 2 inch layer of almond milk into a casserole dish.

Marble painting with milk.

So our first milk paint project was giving an old dresser a makeover. This dresser was given to us from my aunt and uncle and it easily dated back to the 1950s. Try different milk types we have used almond and cow s milk for this experiment and both worked well. It is a classic kid s science activity rainbow milk fireworks with the added process art activity of marbling paper.

You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Rainbow milk marbled paper art is such a cool kids craft activity and it is great as it really is science meets art. Milk paint comes in powder form so you mix it with water. One of the most popular posts here on babble dabble do has been milk painting and i can see why the process makes really wild and beautiful designs.

Each piece will be a very unique marbled piece of art with no two alike. Yes there is a difference between the two. When i originally brought milk painting to school as a science project my friend theresa suggested dipping paper in the milk to see if we could transfer the design and preserve it. You can use any type of milk but cow s milk may result in a sour smell so we d recommend sticking with almond 2.

Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Cut a piece of 8 1 2 x 11 piece of paper in quarters and place each piece face down lightly in the colored milk and let dry.

As you might have guessed we have been exploring marbles and you just can t explore marbles without including a little marble painting in your planning. A fun experiment would be to compare the results with different types of milk. Almond cow rice coconut. The higher the fat content of the milk the more pronounced the explosions should be.

Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit.