Let's Make Foam Paint

I don't know about your kids, but my younger 3 kids LOVE drawing on the sidewalk and driveway with chalk.  They'll spend hours drawing things and then when it gets washed away by the rain or sprinklers, they start all over again.  I was looking through Pinterest the other day (imagine that!!) and I came across some really neat looking foam paint.  I thought it would be fun to change it up a little bit and have them decorate the patio with this instead of chalk.

The original recipe can be found here but I'll show you how we made it.  This is what you're going to need:

- Small plastic squeeze bottles

- 1 cup flour

- 2 four ounce bottles of WASHABLE glue

- 5 cups shaving cream

- Food coloring

- Large Ziploc bag

- 1 snack size Ziploc bag for each color that you want to make

- Scissors

It looked really fun because it has flour and glue and shaving cream in it!!  How fun does that sound?! I had everything that we needed, but I didn't have any squeeze bottles so we had to go out and buy those.  We checked our closest craft store but they didn't have any.  I decided to look in the Dollar Tree on the way back to the car and we ended up finding these bottles of glitter glue.  I figured that we could just squeeze out the glue and use the empty bottles.  So if you can't find small squeeze bottles to put the paint in, try looking for these.  You can't beat 3 for $1.00!!

The original post suggested making the paint in a big ziploc bag and I thought that was a great suggestion so we wouldn't get glue all over the place.  You start with some flour in the bag.

Then you add some glue...

...and some shaving cream.  Hopefully your can will be easier to open than ours was!!

Once you have everything in the bag you seal it up and mix it until it's nice and smooth.

Then you cut a corner off of the bag and squeeze some into a snack size bag so that you can mix in the color.  Make one snack size bag for each color of paint that you want to have.  Then add a few drops of food coloring.

And then mush it around until it's evenly colored.

Then you just cut a small corner off of each bag and slowly squeeze it into a plastic bottle.  It's a really neat consistency so it goes in the bottle easily.

Then take it outside and draw away.  My kids spent a really long time drawing little pictures all over the patio.  I haven't tried washing it off yet, but the original post said that as long as you get washable glue, it should come right off.

  

 

My kids really enjoyed making and playing with this stuff.  I hope your kids will too!!  The great thing about it is that it's good for kids of all ages!!  My oldest wasn't home when we made it, but I'm pretty sure that he would have been out there drawing with them if he was home.