Friday is our weekend over here in Qatar. Daddy is not working and the boys are scheduled for personalized haircut from daddy. While daddy is giving one of the boy his haircut, mummy needed to prepare lunch. However, the other 2 boys were quite 'gluey' today. They wanted to stay in the kitchen with me. I have to quickly think of something to keep them busy in the kitchen. I remembered this DIY edible paint recipe shared by some friends recently, the ingredients needed are simple, hence I gave it a try to let them prepare the paint by themselves.
First, they helped to prepare the 3 primary colours in 3 big bowls.
Then I gave them a small cup (we use the yogurt cups) each. Guide them to select 2 primary colours and put into his tiny cups. Let them stir and mix the colours.
Here, they are busy stirring the colour mixture and they were definately amazed with the result (secondary colours).
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| mixing the colours at the kitchen |
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| mixing red & blue |
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| mummy, look... red and blue makes purple |
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| Secondary colours |
Painting Session:
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| Syuen |
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| Hung |
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| Juin |
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| Exploring with pouring method |
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| Syuen enjoys painting on his feet |
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| Syuen enjoys painting on his feet |
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| Masterpiece from 2 yrs 8mths old Cubbies |
DIY Edible Paint Recipe:
1 cup multi-purpose flour
2-3 cup water
1 cup salt
(act as preservatives for the paint, without salt, the paint mixture turns sour within a day)
Food Colouring
(could use natural colours from food such as beet root (red), tumeric/kunyit (yellow), blue-pea flower/bunga telang (blue) )
