Make Your Own Paint
Let us gather some items which are needed to prepare our own paint:
- Acrylic paint
- Bucket
- Powder grout
- Flour
- Tempera
- Salt
- Water
- Screened clay
- Pot
- Mica
Let us have a look at the steps involved for preparing Chalkboard paint:
- Take the desired color of acrylic paint, powder tile grout and a bucket.
- Now put one cup of acrylic paint in the bucket.
- Add 2 tablespoon of powder tile grout to this paint mixture and mix it well.
- Mix it well until it has no lumps in it.
- Now you can use this paint to decorate your walls, objects and even furniture!
The steps involved for preparing your own finger paints are:
- Take flour, tempera, salt, cold water and a pot for preparing the finger paints.
- Now mix 2 cups of flour with 4 cups of cold water in the pot.
- Cook your mixture over low flame.
- As the mixture starts thickening, you will have to take the pot off the stove.
- Before proceeding further, allow this mixture to cool.
- Now add dry tempera to this.
- Lastly add a dash of salt to this mixture to complete the process.
Now let us make flour paint:
- Take screened clay filler in the color that you want your paint to be.
- Mix one cup of flour with 2 cups of cold water.
- Now, boil 1 ½ cups of water and add the flour mixture to this.
- Make sure to reduce the flame to low.
- Take a separate bowl and mix one cup of clay with half cup of mica and then add this to the flour mixture.
- Mix all of them together until it reaches your desired consistency.
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