Sep 3 2019 marbling with oil and food coloring is one of the easiest ways to marble paper and it uses materials you likely already have at home.
Marbling paper with food coloring and oil.
Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts.
Was the result worth it.
Apr 17 2018 marbling with oil and food coloring is one of the easiest ways to marble paper and it uses materials you likely already have at home.
We also used some little condiment cups with lids to mix our oil and food coloring but you could use any container with a lid.
Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical.
I had to try it to find out.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.
Spoons for stirring mixing the colors.
The first time we worked on this we did it outside.
It s messy but worth it.
The idea that you could transfer a swirly pattern of colours onto a piece of paper just by pressing the paper into a pan of shaving cream kind of perplexed me.
The shaving foam not cream method is one of the easiest least expensive and most kid friendly methods of marbleizing paper.
Vegetable oil we also experimented with baby oil little bowls for individual colors.
Kai enjoyed mixing the pans of water oil and coloring but then i m pretty sure that he would have enjoyed it just as much on a small scale like a small bowl or maybe even in a jar.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.
And because it uses foam instead of water there s less chance of your pigment settling to the bottom of the pan.
Food coloring and oil.
Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.
Liquid watercolors or food coloring.