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Homemade Soap Finger Paint

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A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Making homemade soap paint is a fabulously fun way for your children to experience finger painting.  Children love to help mix and prepare, especially if it’s something fun or tasty.  While this recipe isn’t tasty it certainly has the fun-factor.

Our children enjoyed making the soap paint so much that I didn’t even mind cleaning it off the walls, floor, counters, and body parts after they were done with their masterpieces.  Seeing those big smiles and hearing the sounds of delight was well worth it.  Plus, it was fairly easy to clean up since it is soap-based paint after all (just be careful around fabrics since there is food coloring in it).

Homemade Soap Finger Paint Instructions

Ingredients: 1 bar of Ivory soap, food coloring, warm water

  • Grate 1 bar of Ivory soap.  It will be equivalent to about 1 cup.
  • Pour soap flakes into a large bowl.
  • Add 2 cups of warm water to the soap flakes.
  • Mix with an electric-mixer until the soap is slightly firm.
  • Add 1/2 teaspoon of food coloring to the soap mixture.
  • Gently stir with a spoon.
  • Drop a few globs of paint onto your child’s paper.
  • Let them finger paint and have fun!

 

Here are the steps as we completed them:

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Grate the soap.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Pour the soap flakes into a large bowl.  Then add the water.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Mix with an electric-mixer until the soap thickens.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Add food coloring.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Gently stir to combine the food coloring and soap mixture.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Stir some more.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Look and admire this great concoction.  

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Drop a glob of paint onto a piece of paper.

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Begin finger painting!

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

Hopefully they won’t get so excited that they fling paint all over the walls, floor and their body.  You can probably guess by this next picture which of my children did that. 🙂

A soap-based finger paint recipe that's a great sensory experience for kids while they create their own work of art.

You could also put the mixture into a dish tub or other bin and have them explore and play.

**Clean-up Tip**  I find it’s good practice to always throw unused paint into the garbage rather than put it down the drain.  That way you can avoid any splattered paint in your sink as well as any potential clogging problems.

Lastly, put your little ones in the bath to get them clean!

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