Marbling Paper With Vegetable Oil

Learn how to make marble paper.

Marbling paper with vegetable oil.

Lift the paper to reveal your marbled paper. Paper you will want to use something a little thicker than regular paper. We used mead s academie wirebound sketch diary paper. We d seen several methods but we had almost all the supplies to marble with oil paints so we decided to try that out first.

But it was a long fun day. Also see if you can find the hidden mickey. Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful. Blend a tablespoon of vegetable oil.

We used baby oil in addition to vegetable oil and discovered that no matter what oil it still repels against water. Put about 1 2 tablespoon of cooking oil into a small bowl. We purposely left ours in there a few hours our toddler loved dunking the paper in the water. All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.

In anticipation for this visit we made lists of possible crafts and paper marbling appeared on both lists. Water vegetable oil food coloring tray 3 containers directions. Having the best oil paints can make creating these easier. 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.

It s messy but worth it. The first time we worked on this we did it outside. We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.