Unplug Your Kids: Paper Eggs with Milk Paint

18 Mar

The theme of this week’s Unplug Your Kids Project is EGGS, and I thought I’d share the egg project we made today a little early, since it’s an easy and fun painting craft you might want to try before Easter.

One of my favorite kinds of fun paint is milk paint – condensed milk with food coloring in it, no other ingredients required! It has a nice thick texture and it is glossy when dry.

I grabbed a can of sweetened condensed milk and a box of neon food coloring out of the cupboard, along with four recycled yogurt cups and four paintbrushes from the art studio. I cut a dozen eggs from white paper.

We used craft sticks to mix the food coloring into the milk. I used about half a can of milk total, split between the four containers, and 3-4 drops of food coloring per container.

Then JediBoy got to it!

We did this project while BabyGirl was napping because of the staining power of food coloring. When I thought about it later, though, I realized I could have given her a container of plain condensed milk to paint with on colored paper.

Here are some of the finished products. JediBoy asked for one big egg, and I also cut six tiny eggs from the scraps and I painted those.

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Categories arts, crafts & activities, pictures, unplug, you could call this "school"
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11 Responses to “Unplug Your Kids: Paper Eggs with Milk Paint”

Michie March 18, 2008 at 6:42 pm #

Those are cute! I’ve never tried painting with condensed milk, although I have read about it. I am great at collecting ideas for crafty kid things, and not as great at following through and trying them!
~L March 18, 2008 at 7:30 pm #

This is tomorrow morning’s project here in Casa Chen. Thanks for the suggestion!

~Leigh
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Heather March 19, 2008 at 4:23 pm #

Hello! I haven’t tried this yet either and will have to. Have you ever had food coloring stain clothes though, I never have and now I’m curious about it. Not sure hat we’ll be doing for eggs yet!
Rebecca March 20, 2008 at 8:35 pm #

What a great craft for the season. I will have to try it tomorrow in old t-shirts of course.

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warillever March 24, 2008 at 12:05 pm #

One of our “projects” was painting sugar cookies with sugar glaze. This might work on cookies as well…..
Heather March 24, 2008 at 12:18 pm #

I love the project. Everything looks so bright and cheerful. Great Job.
Mom and Kiddo March 24, 2008 at 7:29 pm #

I like that you used paper eggs. If you look at our project you can see what happened to the eggs in the end!
Mom Unplugged March 25, 2008 at 9:11 am #

OK, I can face the condensed milk now…

Excellent idea! I did not know that condensed milk makes good paint. That we’ll have to try! Good of you to point out about the staining though. I wouldn’t have thought of that.

I love it when I learn something new from these weekly projects, and I almost always do! Thanks for joining us again and Happy Easter!
Nature Mama March 25, 2008 at 1:48 pm #

Hi What a great idea!! I have never heard of making milk paint like that. We’re going to have to try this one, and I have all of the ingredients on hand. Gotta love that It was nice to meet you and hopefully will catch up with you again next week *grin*

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