Marble Painting With Milk

So our first milk paint project was giving an old dresser a makeover.

Marble painting with milk.

Try different milk types we have used almond and cow s milk for this experiment and both worked well. Each piece will be a very unique marbled piece of art with no two alike. 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. It is a classic kid s science activity rainbow milk fireworks with the added process art activity of marbling paper.

This dresser was given to us from my aunt and uncle and it easily dated back to the 1950s. 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. 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.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Milk paint comes in powder form so you mix it with water. Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process. 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.

Milk paint is always non toxic which is a huge bonus. Almond cow rice coconut. Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit. A fun experiment would be to compare the results with different types of milk.

Pour a 1 2 inch layer of almond milk into a casserole dish. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. 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. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture.

The higher the fat content of the milk the more pronounced the explosions should be. You should be going for a milky look to your paint.