Puffy Poster Paint Recipe
Flour
Salt - optional
Water
Tempera/poster Paint
This paint recipe is fantastic for kids of all ages as when it dries it creates a wonderful dimensional paint effect which is suitable for tactile play.
Start by mixing equal amounts of flour, salt and water together then add any colored poster paint.
We made a big batch then separated them into cups and made individual colors.
Use a spatula or thick paint brush to paint with it.
You can also pour your mixture into squeeze bottles or re-use old squeeze sauce bottles.
Use the paint as normal, but when it dries it will harden to a puffed up dimensional paint.
If you are not wanting to keep these paintings for more than a few days then you can leave out the salt.
By Shellie Wilson. Shellie is the chief creative editor for Craftbits.
Yes you can use this paint with a paintbrush however it will flatten out the mixture and will therefore not have the desired effect...I used to make this with the kids at daycare when i worked there however it was nearly 9 yrs ago and forgot the recipe! Thanku ever so much for putting it up :)
I made this recipe for a poster i was doing in science, it was on cells, and it work so well it is the perfect puffy paint recipe. I highly reccommend to anyone who needs puffy paint to use this recipe.
I wondered if you could use a paintbrush instead of a squeeze bottle.
I've always liked puff paint, now I can make it! thanks
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