Marble Painting With Milk

Pour a 1 2 inch layer of almond milk into a casserole dish.

Marble painting with milk.

Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. 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. 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. 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.

The higher the fat content of the milk the more pronounced the explosions should be. Each piece will be a very unique marbled piece of art with no two alike. It is a classic kid s science activity rainbow milk fireworks with the added process art activity of marbling paper. Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process.

Yes there is a difference between the two. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. This dresser was given to us from my aunt and uncle and it easily dated back to the 1950s. Milk paint is always non toxic which is a huge bonus.

Milk paint comes in powder form so you mix it with water. 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. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. 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.

Try different milk types we have used almond and cow s milk for this experiment and both worked well. Almond cow rice coconut. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. So our first milk paint project was giving an old dresser a makeover.

How to water marble with acrylic paint. A fun experiment would be to compare the results with different types of milk.