What are modern paints made of? What are paints made from? The largest selection of homemade eco paint recipes for your child

Surely everyone remembers their first watercolor paints - with round flowers and a shaggy brush. Honey. Some tried to eat the watercolors, and almost all of them had the habit of licking the brush. Meanwhile, watercolor is not nearly as edible, although it does indeed contain honey.

The basis of all paints is a pigment and a binder. It depends on what the paints are mixed with that it turns out to be watercolor or gouache. And all paints have the same pigment. Paints have been around for so long that it is impossible to say when and by whom they were invented. Since ancient times, people have ground soot, burnt clay, mixed it with animal glue and created for their own pleasure. The caves were painted with ocher, clay-based paints, and soot - the first witnesses to the work of painters who have survived to this day.

Over time, people began to transform minerals, stones, clays and chemical mixtures (oxides, oxides, etc.) into paints. If you want to see today how artists worked thousands of years ago, you will have to look into the tempera painting workshop, to the icon painters. Like many centuries ago, masters of icon making rub paints by hand. Crushed in a lead mortar and ground to dust, malachite will give a transparent green color, burnt grape seeds will give a black color, the mercury mineral cinnabar will give the same red color, and lapis lazuli will give a blue color. The color palette grew and multiplied with the development of painting.

Today, for the industrial production of paints, mineral and organic pigments extracted from the depths of Mother Earth or pigments obtained artificially are used. For example, instead of the same ultramarine, synthetic “ultramarine” is obtained from the expensive mineral lapis lazuli.

Tempera paints contain a water-soluble emulsion. In traditional icon painting - a mixture of yolk. In industrial production - casein or PVA (synthetic polyvinyl acetate resin). Tempera paints dry very quickly and change color and tone greatly, but there is nothing stronger than tempera paints. This is a painting for the ages.

Most Popular - watercolor paints- kneaded on the basis of natural gum arabic (plant resins), with the addition of plasticizers: honey, glycerin or sugar. This is what allows them to be so light and transparent. In addition, the watercolor will definitely include an antiseptic, like phenol, so it’s still not worth eating. Watercolor and paper were invented in China, but this technique came to Europe only in the 12th century.

Gouache its composition is very close to watercolor paints; it also contains pigment on a water-soluble adhesive base. But white is added to the colors, which gives the paints density, strong lightening when drying and a velvety surface.

Oil paints mixed with drying oils (most often using specially treated linseed oil), alkyd resins and drier (a solvent that allows the paint to dry faster). Oil paints appeared in Europe in the 15th century, but it is still unclear who owns the laurels of the inventor, since traces of paintings with paint based on poppy and nut oils were found in ancient Buddhist caves, and drying oil - boiled oil - was used in Ancient Rome. Oil paints do not change color when dry and allow you to achieve stunning depth of color.

By pressing linseed oil with pigment, you get oil crayons, wax based – wax crayons. Pastel They are also made by pressing, but without the use of oil. Modern technologies have significantly expanded both the range of paints and the color palette. But, as before, mineral and organic pigments form the basis of the highest quality paints.

You have decided to introduce your child to beauty - to teach him to draw. Or you can “shake off the old days” yourself and portray something like that. But you don’t know which colors are best to choose. Let's figure it out.

Classification of paints

Paints differ from each other in composition, consistency and smell. The following are suitable for drawing:

• watercolor;
• gouache;
• acrylic;
• oil;
• fingered.

What could be better than watercolors?

This type of paint is familiar to everyone (so to speak, greetings from distant childhood). With watercolors (by the way, they were invented by the Chinese) you can paint any complex landscape - after all, there are about forty colors, and even a huge number of various shades.

What is good about this type of paint? Because it is an environmentally friendly product that is not scary to give even to children to occupy their leisure time. Let them draw! Maybe they will become Repin or Aivazovsky. Drawings made with watercolors are distinguished by a certain airiness, naturalness, lightness and transparency.

What is it made from? This type of paint includes:

• Transparent resin. It is obtained by drying the juice of various types of acacias.
• Granulated sugar (or glycerin).
• Plasticizing substances that improve the quality characteristics of the product.

Important! Despite all the advantages of watercolors, do not forget about one point that should alert you: the composition of the paints must also include antiseptic substances (for example, the universally unloved phenol). Therefore, when using it, you should not forget about it and show miracles of carelessness.

We make our own paints

Of course, some super discerning professional, having taken a look and tried to use homemade paints, will snort and say that it is impossible to create a “masterpiece” work of art. But in defense of paints made at home with our own hands, we present the following arguments:

• they are excellent for everyday activities with children (especially preschool age), as they do not eat into the skin of the hands and can be easily wiped off (and if they get on clothes, they can be easily washed off);
• there is no need to visit retail outlets very often to purchase goods (you always have it in stock at home);
• the colors do not mix with each other and remain clean;
• They have a bright color and glide like butter.

So let's get started. You will need:

• baking soda - four tablespoons;
• table vinegar - two tablespoons;
• any light syrup - 1/2 tablespoon;
• starch (preferably corn) - two tablespoons;
• dyes in liquid form or in powders (exclusively for food);
• any suitable containers (for example, muffin or ice tins).

Algorithm for making solid watercolor paints

How to make watercolor paint:

• Thoroughly mix in a container with a spout (then it will be very convenient to pour the mixture into molds) two components: soda and vinegar.

Important! Take your time: wait until the hissing stops. Only then continue to “create”.

• Add the following two ingredients: starch and syrup. Mix everything thoroughly, leaving no lumps.
• Pour the mixture into molds.
• Unpack the dyes and add them to the molds.

On a note! The molds are small, so we use toothpicks or matches to stir the dye into them. We do everything very quickly: you need to complete it within 1 minute. And one more nuance: if the consistency of the paints turns out to be slightly runny, then just add a little starch.

• Let the paints dry. This will take 1-2 days (if you place a tray with freshly prepared paints on the battery, the drying process will go faster).

Once they're completely dry, just take your brush, dip it in water and start sculpting!

Gouache paints are also a good choice

This type of paint is loved by both professional artists and those who have just embarked on this path. However, the choice is good, since gouache has quite rich and bright colors; thick and oily texture. Gouache paints are divided into poster paints (thicker in consistency and brighter; used for design work) and art paints.

Gouache? The question is very simple. This type of paint is a “direct relative” of watercolor. The composition includes the same pigmented particles and the same water-soluble glue-based component. The only difference is that natural white is added to the gouache, which gives it greater density, delicate velvety and whiteness. Paintings made using watercolor or gouache are distinguished by their trepidation, tenderness and liveliness. They cannot be confused with other equipment.

Why not use oil paints?

It’s all very simple: since the paint is oil-based, that means it contains what? That's right - oil. History is silent about who invented it. This type of paint is hardly suitable for children who paint at home. But for children (future, perhaps, brilliant artists) who attend specialized artistic institutions, they are quite suitable (after all, they, children, know how to use them without harm to their health).

What are oil paints made from? They are mixed mainly with linseed oil, which has undergone a unique technological treatment. In addition to this main component, the product contains resin (alkyd) and substances that allow the paint to dry quickly. And this is an important detail.

What are the benefits of oil paints? The fact that over a long period their colors remain as bright and deep.

Try using acrylic paints

Today acrylic is a very popular coating, which a few decades ago was generally unknown to anyone. Progress does not stand still. Acrylic paints dry very quickly, have a fairly rich palette of colors, and can be easily applied not only to paper or cardboard, but also to plastic or ceramics.

What are acrylic paints made from? First of all, it should be noted that this is, of course, a synthetic product, which is created on the basis of polymers such as ethyl, butyl and methyl. In addition to them, water and pigments are present.

How to “reanimate” acrylic paints

What to do - acrylic paints have dried out? How can I dilute them? Water. Just remember some conditions:

• There should be no impurities in the liquid. Therefore, you need to use distilled water (you can buy it at a hardware store or pharmacy). If you can’t purchase it, then simply boil regular tap water and leave it to sit for a while.
• The water temperature should be about +20 degrees.

Important! Proportions play an important role. If you dilute it in a ratio of 1:2 (that is, one part of the color mixture and two of water), then the solution will have a fairly liquid consistency and will only be suitable for use as a base layer. If the ratio is 1:1, then it is perfect as a base coat.

Paints for the little ones

There are paints that are intended for very young children who cannot hold a pencil or a brush. They are called finger ones. The paints adhere well to the surface and do not run off the fingers in any way. They are very easy to work with: just dip your finger into a jar of paint, then touch the paper (cardboard or glass). All is ready! You can exhibit in the gallery!

What are the components of such paints? They are made on a water basis and contain only food coloring. True, it is unlikely that the baby will like this product, since the colors have a bitter or salty aftertaste. This was done on purpose so that the child would not be tempted to eat them before lunch.

How to use gel paint

Fashionistas can best answer this question. They know exactly what makes nails attractive. Moreover, using this coating, you can make a manicure on nails of any shape and any size (both natural and extended). The main advantage of such paints is that they mix well, which allows you to get a huge number of additional shades.

In custody

Now you know what paints are made from. And with full consciousness of the matter, you can plunge into this fascinating process.

Old books often contain the names of exotic dyes: red sandalwood, quercitron, carmine, sepia, logwood... Some of these dyes are still used today, but in very small quantities, mainly for the preparation of artistic paints. After all, natural dyes with such beautiful names are obtained from plants and animals, and this, as you understand, is expensive and difficult. But natural dyes are very bright, durable, and lightfast.

It would be interesting to check. But how? Logwood grows in South America, sandalwood grows in South Asia, sepia comes from cuttlefish, carmine comes from cochineal (tiny insects)...

And yet it is quite possible to obtain natural dyes even at home, even in the middle zone of our country. And in the plants we are familiar with there are coloring substances, although not so bright and not so persistent. Our ancestors often used them. Let's try to extract dyes from plants, and then based on them we will prepare water-soluble paints, known to everyone as watercolors. Naturally, the dyes that we will finish off must dissolve well in water.

We will prepare all the dyes in the same way: we will grind the plants or any parts of them and boil them in water for a long time to obtain a concentrated decoction. It should be quite thick. We don’t need to extract the dry dye - after all, we still have to prepare water-soluble paint.

A very important note: only take plants that are legal to pick where you live; Do not under any circumstances tear up plants that are protected in your region or republic. And in any case, in order not to harm nature, limit the number of plants collected to a minimum.

Let's start with red dye. It can be obtained from the stem of St. John's wort (the decoction must be acidified) or from the root of bedstraw. You may not know what these plants look like. In this case, consult a biology teacher or take a reference book or plant guide from the library; As a rule, they contain both descriptions of plants and their drawings.

Place alder bark in water for several days, and then prepare a decoction. Once again you will have red dye. It can also be extracted from the roots of horse sorrel, but in this case, do not forget to add a little aluminum alum to the finished decoction - otherwise the color will be dull.

From the roots of the famous elecampane plant (it, like St. John's wort, is a medicinal herb) you can get a blue dye. To do this, the roots must first be kept in ammonia - an aqueous solution of ammonia. Blue dye can also be obtained from larkspur flowers and bird buckwheat roots.

The green dye is extracted from the leaves of the shamrock (also, by the way, a medicinal herb). You can get a less bright, but still beautiful gray-green dye from the leaves and stems of mantle; Before preparing the decoction, they must be thoroughly crushed.

Yellow dye is produced by many plants: gorse, hazel (bark), alder buckthorn (bark, leaves, berries), bedstraw (flowers). Barberry fruit produces a yellow dye with a lemon tint.

If you boil dry onion skins in water, you get a brown dye of different shades - from almost yellow to dark brown. Another source of such dye is dry joster bark.

Blueberries and blackberries, as you might guess, contain a purple dye. It is not very durable, but can be quite useful for watercolor paints. And from the stems and leaves of celandine it is possible to extract an orange dye.

How to get black pigment? Firstly, for this you can prepare a decoction of berries and roots of the crow. But there is another way, a simpler one: add iron sulfate to one of the previously obtained decoctions. Almost all of our decoctions contain tannins such as tannin (remember the experiments with tea), and in the presence of ferrous iron salts they turn black.

Have you stocked up on enough thick, colorful infusions? Then let's get down to the main thing - making watercolor paint. Its main components are dye and water, but there are other essential components. First of all, substances that bind paint to paper, such as gum arabic or wood glues - substances with increased stickiness. Next, you need viscous substances, they will prevent the paint from spreading over the paper, making it lie in an even layer; Honey, molasses, and glycerin are good for this. And the last addition is an antiseptic and disinfectant. After all, we are dealing with substances of plant origin, and they must be protected from the action of microorganisms (molds that will certainly want to feed on our paints).

If you don’t have gum arabic, then it’s best to use cherry or plum glue as an adhesive, scum on the trunks, which can be collected directly from the trees - it won’t harm them. True, such glue (more precisely, gum) dissolves in water with difficulty, but if you add a little acid, the dissolution will go much faster.

For paint of each color, prepare 5-7 ml of adhesive solution of approximately 50% concentration. Mix it with an equal amount of glycerin or about three times less honey. Phenol will serve as an antiseptic; its 5% solution called “carbolic acid” is available in pharmacies. You need very little of this substance, literally a few drops.

Mix all the components of the future paint. The paint base is ready, only the most important thing is missing - the dye. Add it last in the form of a thick decoction, taking about the same amount as you got the base for the paint.

That, in fact, is the whole procedure. You may be wondering why the paint is not solid - in stores they sell it in tiles. However, artists also use semi-liquid watercolor paints in tubes. In consistency, they are exactly reminiscent of those multi-colored paints that you just prepared.

If you are going to store your paints, be sure to pour them into some bottles that are tightly closed with plastic stoppers, otherwise the paints will soon dry out. And you need to work with them the same way as with any other watercolor paints: a soft brush, thick paper... However, among the young chemists there are probably also young artists.

Before moving on to a new topic, here's one more tip: try dyeing your fabric. Indeed, in the old days, most plant dyes were used precisely for this purpose. Let’s just agree on this: don’t put good things in the dye bath (which can be a bowl or basin). Experiment with pieces of clean white fabric or yarn first. And only if you are convinced that the experiment is successful, take something - always from the same fibers on which you conducted the experiment.

Before dyeing, the fabric usually needs to be etched - kept in a hot solution of some salt; For this purpose, a solution of potassium alum is often taken. After holding the fabric or yarn in the mordant for several minutes, dip it in a decoction of the dye, previously filtered through cheesecloth, and boil in it. Unfortunately, it is impossible to give exact advice on how strong the decoction should be, because two outwardly identical plants may contain different amounts of coloring matter. So the concentration and processing time will have to be selected experimentally.

Let's name a few plants from which you can get good dyeing decoctions for fabric. Let's start with the already mentioned onion skins. In its decoction, the fabric will turn yellow-red if etched with alum, and green if etched with iron sulfate. Onion peels have been used since ancient times for dyeing wool and flax.

You can also make dye from potato leaves and stems. Their decoction will color the fabric lemon-colored if the fabric has been previously treated with a solution of any tin salt. A decoction of rhubarb root will give fabric etched with a solution of iron sulfate a marsh color.

Decoctions from tree bark can also be used to dye wool. Thus, alder bark will color wool dark red, ash bark - blue. Wild pear wood contains a brown dye (the wool must be pickled in an aqueous solution of some bismuth salt before dyeing). Birch leaves contain a gray-green dye, although it is not very effective.

In the old days, they rarely, but still dyed wool with a solution of coffee, only raw, to get a green color. Try this dye too, since you only need a small amount of raw coffee beans. They must be ground and boiled with the addition of washing soda, and the wool must be pickled in a hot alum solution before immersing it in the broth.

If you like this activity, check for yourself the coloring effect of other plants in combination with different mordants. It is possible that you will discover some unknown or completely forgotten combination, and the coloring will turn out to be extremely beautiful.

O. Holguin. "Experiments without explosions"
M., "Chemistry", 1986

Nikitina Ulyana

Target:

Make watercolor paints from natural ingredients at home.

Tasks:

1. Study the composition and properties of watercolor paints.

2. Find out the functional significance of paint components.

3. Consider the main stages of paint production.

4. Prepare a base for watercolor paints from plant materials and

get plant pigments.

Hypothesis:

By working only with plant material, it is possible to produce watercolor paints based on natural pigments even at home.

Research methods:

Study and analysis of scientific and popular science literature on the research problem

Experiment: methods for producing plant pigments and paints based on them

Processing and analysis of experimental data

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Target:

Make watercolor paints from natural ingredients at home.

Tasks:

1. Study the composition and properties of watercolor paints.

2. Find out the functional significance of paint components.

3. Consider the main stages of paint production.

4. Prepare a base for watercolor paints from plant materials and

get plant pigments.

Hypothesis:

By working only with plant material, it is possible to produce watercolor paints based on natural pigments even at home.

Research methods:

Study and analysis of scientific and popular science literature on the research problem

Experiment: methods for producing plant pigments and paints based on them

Processing and analysis of experimental data

Introduction.

Watercolor (fr. aquarelle - watery;italian. acquarello) is a painting technique using special watercolor paints.Watercolor paints are usually applied to paper, which is often pre-wetted with water to achievea special blurry stroke shape.

Watercolor painting came into use later than other types of painting. However, despite its late appearance, it has made such progress in a short time that it can compete with oil painting.

Watercolor is one of the poetic types of painting. Watercolors can convey the serene blue of the sky, the lace of clouds, the veil of fog. It allows you to capture natural phenomena.

A sheet of white grainy paper, a box of paints, a soft, obedient brush, water in a small vessel - that’s all the artist needs. You can write on wet or dry paper immediately, in full color. But in any case, it is impossible or almost impossible to correct a damaged place: watercolor cannot tolerate adding or correcting color.

In Russia of the century before last there were many outstanding watercolorists. P.A. Fedotov, I.N. Kramskoy, N.A. Yaroshenko, V.D. Polenov, I.E. Repin, V.A. Serov, M.A. Vrubel, V.I. Surikov... each of them made a rich contribution to the Russian watercolor school.

Artists often use watercolor in combination with other materials: gouache, charcoal.

The goal of our work is to produce watercolor paints at home from natural ingredients.

Theoretical part.

Composition and properties of paints.

Watercolor paints are prepared mainly using glues of vegetable origin, which is why they are called water paints. Paints for watercolor painting must have the following qualities.

1.Great transparency.

2.Grips well with a damp brush and washes out easily.

3.Watercolor paint should lie evenly on the paper and not form spots or dots.

4.After drying, give a durable, non-cracking layer.

5. Do not penetrate the back of the paper.

The main components of watercolor paint are dye and water. Next, you need viscous substances, they will prevent the paint from spreading over the paper, making it lie in an even layer; Honey, molasses, and glycerin are good for this.

Production of paints.

Watercolor paints are available in porcelain cups and tubes. Production technique:

1) mixing with pigment;

2) grinding the mixture;

3) drying;

4) filling cups or tubes with paint;

5) packaging.

Features of watercolor paints.

Watercolor painting is transparent, clean and bright in tone, which is difficult to achieve with oil paints. Watercolor paints are also used as underpainting for oil painting.

Strong dilution of paints with water when applied thinly to paper reduces the amount of paint, and the paint loses tone and becomes less durable. When applying several layers of watercolor paint on one place, spots appear.

Practical part.

After analyzing the literature and articles on the Internet, we can describe how paints are prepared.

First they look for raw materials. It can be coal, chalk, clay, lapis lazuli, malachite. Raw materials must be cleaned of foreign impurities. The materials must then be ground to powder.

Coal, chalk and clay can be crushed at home, but malachite and lapis lazuli are very hard stones and require special tools to grind them. Ancient artists ground the powder in a mortar and pestle. The resulting powder is the pigment.

Then the pigment must be mixed with a binder. As a binder you can use: egg, oil, water, glue, honey. The paint must be mixed well so that there are no lumps. The resulting paint can be used for painting.

In old books, the names of exotic dyes are often found: red sandalwood, carmine, sepia, logwood... Some of these dyes are still used today, but in very small quantities, mainly for the preparation of artistic paints. And yet, you can try to prepare paints using mineral substances - pigments, which can be found in a school laboratory or in the household.

Hypothesis: I assumed that you could make your own watercolor paints at home, but they would be different from store-bought ones.

To carry out the experiments, I needed to obtain natural pigments and binders.

At my disposal was clay, coal, chalk, onion peels, potassium permanganate, office glue, honey and a chicken egg.

I made a plan for 5 experiments.

Plan of the 1st experiment:

1) Clean the coal from foreign impurities.

2) Grind the coal into powder.

3) Sift the powder.

4) Mix coal with water.

Plan of the 2nd experiment:

1) Clean the clay from foreign impurities.

2) Grind the clay into powder.

3) Sift the powder.

4) Mix clay with office glue.

Plan of the 3rd experiment:

1) Clean the chalk from foreign impurities.

2) Grind the chalk into powder.

3) Sift the powder.

4) Mix chalk with egg white.

Plan of the 4th experiment:

1) Make a thick decoction of onion peels.

2) Cool the broth.

3) Mix the decoction with honey.

Plan of the 5th experiment

1) Grind potassium permanganate into a fine powder.

2) Sift the powder.

3) Mix potassium permanganate with water.

During the experiments, I received black, brown, white, beige, and yellow paints.

Our paints were not the hard ones they sell in stores. However, artists use similar semi-liquid watercolor paints in tubes. After conducting experiments, I wanted to try other raw materials, as well as paint my own drawing with new colors.

Experimental results.

Now I know what watercolor paints are made of. You can prepare some paints at home. The resulting paints differ in consistency and quality from store-bought ones.

Thus, charcoal with water gave a paint with a metallic tint, it was easily applied to the brush and left a bright mark on the paper, and dried quickly.

Clay with glue gave a dirty brown paint, did not mix well with the glue, left a greasy mark on the paper and took a long time to dry.

Chalk with egg white produced white paint that was easy to apply to a brush, left a thick mark on the paper, took a long time to dry, but turned out to be the most durable.

A decoction of onion peels with honey gave a yellow paint; it picked up well on the brush, left an intense mark on the paper and dried quickly.

Potassium permanganate with water formed a light brown paint, it was easily applied to the brush and left a pale mark on the paper, and dried quickly.

The resulting paints have advantages and disadvantages: they are environmentally friendly, free, have a natural color, but are labor-intensive to produce, inconvenient to store, and there are no saturated colors among the resulting solutions.

Conclusion.

Watercolor is one of the most poetic types of painting. It allows you to capture short-term natural phenomena. But she also has access to major works, graphic and pictorial, chamber and monumental, landscapes and still lifes, portraits and complex compositions.

Conclusions that can be drawn from the work:

1. The history of colors began with the advent of man. They were known long before written reports about them appeared. Initially, this painting was mainly found in “memory” albums and souvenirs, then it was included in artists’ albums and appeared in art galleries and art exhibitions.

2. The technique of watercolor painting is very diverse both in its techniques and in the way it uses paints. It differs from other techniques in its consistency and results. They paint in watercolors in different ways. Some painters prefer to work gradually - one layer of paint is placed on another, which has dried. Then the details are carefully conveyed. Many people take the paint at full strength and paint in one layer. It is difficult to immediately accurately show both the shape and color of objects.

3. Paints consist of a pigment and a binder. Namely, watercolor paints are made from dry dye and glue. They may also contain a certain amount of sugar and, when consumed, are rubbed with water on saucers, or directly (honey paints) are taken with a brush dipped in water from tiles or cups.

4. During experiments at home, I was able to obtain watercolor paints of different colors and shades, compare their quality with store-bought paints, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages.

5. What if watercolor has a future? We can confidently answer this question. Watercolor has a future!

Without watercolors, the world of artistic painting will be boring and monotonous!

Bibliography:

1. Kukushkin Yu.N. - Chemistry around us - Bustard, 2003.

2. Petrov V. - World of Art. Artistic association of the 20th century.-M.: Aurora, 2009

Municipal autonomous educational institution “Secondary school No. 107”, Perm

Section: natural and mathematical sciences.

Making watercolor paints at home from natural ingredients.

Student: 6-b

Nikitina Ulyana

Teacher:

If you, as a responsible and caring parent, want a happy childhood for your child, add more bright colors to it. And start the comprehensive development of your child, study science from the cradle, read useful books, go for walks and travel. You will find a lot of useful information on the pages of Happy Science.

And today I will tell you how to make safe eco-friendly paints for your child at home. I assure you that the paints according to my recipes are no worse than branded, expensive analogues. And don’t even doubt its safety and environmental friendliness: the basis is only natural ingredients that can be bought in your favorite store. Well, you're ready, then you'll meet.

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DIY bathroom paint recipe

Paints for painting in the bathroom today are quite expensive and not everyone can afford them. And you will have to get rid of paintings painted with paints, for example, of Chinese origin, for a long time and purchase expensive cleaning products for this. So, if your child loves to paint in the bathroom, I invite you to write down a simple recipe and make DIY paints with your own hands.

To create thicker paints that your child can use with their fingers instead of a brush, place all the ingredients except the dyes in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over low heat and turn off immediately. Such paints do not spread.

How to make voluminous paints for children (Puffy Paints) with your own hands

Have you already painted with Puffy Paints with your child? I hope you and your child enjoyed this pop up paint. If you don’t yet know how to make these push-up paints from simple ingredients and delight everyone with interesting drawings... Welcome to my mini master class.

You can paint with these paints only with cotton swabs. And this is a new, unique experience. Draw and color large coloring pages. And to make the colors rise, microwave your work of art on high for 30 seconds. Or for 2 minutes in the oven. Set the temperature regulator to 180 degrees. Be careful that the sheet does not turn over and that the paints warm up on all sides and swell well. And within a couple of minutes after cooling, the paints will become hard, voluminous and will not crack.

Let me tell you how to make body art paints with your own hands

An interesting, bright, exciting and mega creative activity for your children, not even for five minutes - body art. You shouldn’t make your eyes wide in surprise, like “HOW?” Easy, fun and creative, friends. Children love to draw. And they will enjoy painting themselves no less. Believe me. Better yet, at the first opportunity, give your child the opportunity to rejoice, indulge and have fun from the heart. And now I will tell you a simple recipe for miracle paints for body painting. I recommend drawing with them when you play in the children's pool or in the bathroom. It turns out great for children's body art.

Our readers will likely notice that this recipe is similar to a non-Newtonian fluid. Maybe, but we will be applying paint to the body, so be prepared for color mixing.

For mixing, you can use any convenient container with a wide neck. And for the brightest game, a paint tray is perfect, from which you can scoop up paint with a cotton swab or brush.

They wash off easily, thanks to baby shampoo, and the skin does not dry out, because the paint contains baby cream. The child will enjoy washing himself and cleaning the bathroom after a massive mess.

A simple recipe on how to make stained glass paints with your own hands

You can allow children to show their imagination and paint on glass not only for the New Year. And in general, you can paint with stained glass paints on any glass surface and even on transparent files. And there is absolutely no need to buy expensive kits, because you can make your own paints at home.

Sparkles add a special piquancy to the colors. You know, the ones they use for manicures. You can also paint using a stencil. And if you draw on a file, then after it has completely dried, peel off the drawing from the file and glue the stained glass window to any smooth surface - glass, mirror, tile, etc.

For those who like large-scale projects, I have a special offer: make gel paints for painting at home.

Making these paints will not cause you any trouble and will not take much time. Just prepare larger containers. Because you can draw on huge pieces of whatman paper. These paints are also suitable for painting in the bathroom, and they will be easy to wash off. But first, paints need to be made. This is what we will do now.

How do you like this option of paints for super-scale painting? This is especially popular with us. You can add shine and put sparkles in gel paints. Such as nail design masters use. Drawing begins with the finger, then the palms are used, and then the multi-colored heels sparkle on whatman paper. But our journey into the fascinating world of colors does not end there. And I prepared the most delicious for last.

Would you like to add the recipe for yogurt finger paints to your treasure chest?

The most difficult and interesting thing about this recipe is that there are no exact proportions. And these paints are the simplest, most natural and safe. They are made quickly, easily and simply.

These paints are perfect for early development. And the drawings will undoubtedly be real masterpieces.

What are the benefits of paints? They help develop:

• fine motor skills,
• hand coordination,
• dexterity and finger strength,
• color perception,
• imagination,
• speech.

They also help your child develop:

• artistic taste,
• creative thinking,
• independence.

Fun Science wishes you fun, creative activities with your child. Practice various drawing techniques, teach your child to mix colors, distinguish shades, and calmly create your first artistic masterpieces.