Marble Painting With Milk

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.

Marble painting with milk.

Pour a 1 2 inch layer of almond milk into a casserole dish. So our first milk paint project was giving an old dresser a makeover. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Each piece will be a very unique marbled piece of art with no two alike.

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. A fun experiment would be to compare the results with different types of milk. Yes there is a difference between the two.

The higher the fat content of the milk the more pronounced the explosions should be. Almond cow rice coconut. 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. 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.

Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. 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. How to water marble with acrylic paint.

Try different milk types we have used almond and cow s milk for this experiment and both worked well. Milk paint comes in powder form so you mix it with water. Rainbow milk marbled paper art is such a cool kids craft activity and it is great as it really is science meets art. Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit.

It is a classic kid s science activity rainbow milk fireworks with the added process art activity of marbling paper. Milk paint is always non toxic which is a huge bonus.