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Edible-Safe Watercolor Paint Recipe (with ingredients you have at home)

by Alexa

Making edible paint has been on my to-do list for the longest time. I tried different recipes with no luck. Until I reached out to a new artist friend who gave me this recipe from a book she had to try out.

I fell in love! so now I share with you the recipe.

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE WATERCOLOR PAINT

Homemade Watercolor Paint Recipe

March 23, 2020

by Alexa

Category 2 Year Olds Art & Crafts Sensory Play

Notes

To make other colors just repeat the recipe and change the food color

Ingredients

2tps Cornstarch
2 tsp Vinegar
20 drops of food coloring

Instructions

Mix equal parts cornstarch to vinegar
add 15-20 drops of food coloring
mix mix mix
Dip paintbrush into paint
paint onto watercolor paper

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School measured the things I wasn't — neat handwriting, sitting still, the right answer on the worksheet — and missed the things I was. My creativity didn't count for anything in that system, so I decided I simply wasn't smart.

It took until college, studying advertising, for someone to finally measure what my brain could actually do. I graduated with honors and won the best portfolio award — and for the first time, the system told me I was good at something. That gap — being the kid school gave up on, then becoming the adult who refused to give up on other kids — is the spine of everything I've built since.

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Certified in Lectoescritura en Español Waldorf method.
Former Education & Social Recreation Director Boys & Girls Club.
Featured on PBS Kids Kidvision South Florida, 2023.

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