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.
