I have been really busy these past few days with cleaning and reorganizing the craft area and our walk-in wardrobe. After uncluterring the mess, and as I have promised Maya, we made edible finger paint. The ingredients are as shown in the picture above. Don't worry, this is a very simple recipe that does not require one to be a rocket scientist.
Sieve all the dry ingredients together. Mix the water into the sifted ingredients, and stir until there is no longer any lumps. To ensure that the mixture is lump free, strain the mixture through a sieve.
Cook the mixture on stove top until it has formed a gooey paste. I separated the goo into different containers and added candy oil coloring. If your child still puts things into the mouth, do use natural coloring instead. Such as, tumeric for yellow, cocoa for brown, blue peas flower for blue and spinach for green.
I took out half from each container and put them into zip lock bags, small size. Two zip lock bags per color to ensure that they won't spill. These are nice color pouches to learn about colors, for interactive dancing activities, and imitating game. Maya was having fun putting on her nose, head, tummy and etc.
As for the other half, these can be used as finger paint. But since Maya didn't like the gooey texture on her fingers, we had fun doing texture painting instead. Still lots of fun!
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