Marble Painting With Milk

Each piece will be a very unique marbled piece of art with no two alike.

Marble painting with milk.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. This dresser was given to us from my aunt and uncle and it easily dated back to the 1950s. It is a classic kid s science activity rainbow milk fireworks with the added process art activity of marbling paper. Pour a 1 2 inch layer of almond milk into a casserole dish.

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. 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. 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. A fun experiment would be to compare the results with different types of milk.

Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Milk paint is always non toxic which is a huge bonus. The higher the fat content of the milk the more pronounced the explosions should be.

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

Milk paint comes in powder form so you mix it with water. How to water marble with acrylic paint. So our first milk paint project was giving an old dresser a makeover. Try different milk types we have used almond and cow s milk for this experiment and both worked well.

Rainbow milk marbled paper art is such a cool kids craft activity and it is great as it really is science meets art. Make sure not to push the paper too far into the milk and soak think of it as laying the paper on top of the milk.