We made marshmallow paint today and the children really enjoyed creating pictures with it. You just need to have marshmallow cream and food coloring. I got the original recipe from an early childhood art training that I attended but found that it was way too thick to be used easily by my students.
We scooped out the marshmallow cream and divided it evenly into a six section jumbo muffin tin. We added food coloring and stirred the marshmallow cream with craft sticks.
The mixture was really stiff so I modified the recipe by adding a little bit of warm water to each section and the children once again stirred it. The paint was still nice and thick but spread much more easily with a brush while the children were using it.
The paint was also very shiny and does take a bit to dry. When the children left for the day the pictures they had made were still a sticky but they were hangable. We used cardstock paper which was much more thicker and could hold the weight of the paint better than regular paper.
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