Make Your Own Custom Watercolor Paints

MATERIALS:

• 1/2 cup baking soda
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon corn syrup
• Food coloring
• plastic painter’s palette, yogurt cups, ice cube trays or any other small containers that you want to keep the paint in
• fork
• toothpick

DIRECTIONS:

1. Mix all the ingredients together in a glass bowl or measuring cup.
2. Bubbling and frothing right away is what you will see. Have your fork handy to whisk it quickly before it hardens.
   Next, pour even amounts of the mixture into your small containers, portioning it out evenly amongst however many containers you have.
3. Add drops of food coloring to your individual portions, stirring with a toothpick or popsicle stick, until you have your desired shades.  Once you have your colors as you like them, go back and give them all one last stir to make sure it is all fully incorporated.
4. Set them aside for about 3 days to dry and set.

(Note: They are usable immediately after making them, but they will obviously be totally liquid as opposed to set and hard like store-bought watercolors.)

Voila!

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