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Use a brush, or anything (like your pinkie finger) to make a smiley face on your canvas.Get a piece of paper, newspaper, a paper plate, or a napkin for your “canvas”.Find a sauce or condiment in your fridge, like ketchup, and squirt some onto a small dish.– Beverages: Coffee, tea, soda, cocoa, juice, smoothie, melted popsicles, sportsdrinks.– Sauces: Ketchup, mustard, tomato paste, hot sauce.– Minerals! Dirt, rust, ash, clay, sand.– Plants! Grass clippings, flower petals, leaves, pollen.– Artificially-colored foods: KoolAid™, Jello, food coloring, popsicles.– Beverages! Gatorade, coffee, fruit juice, tea.– Mashed or blended fruits and vegetables, especially beets, peppers, berries, spinach, red cabbage, carrots.Stuff that can be used for color pigment: – Advanced Chemistry Recipe: Boiled red cabbage juice + liquids with different pH.– Gloppy Recipe D: 1/2 cup flour + 1/2 cup salt + 1/2 cup water.– Chalky Recipe C: 1/2 cup crushed chalk/antacid tablets + 1/2 cup water + stir.– Watery Recipe B: 1/2 cup flour or cornstarch + 1/2 cup water + stir.– Goopy Recipe A: 1 tablespoon corn or potato starch + 1 cup water + microwave 30s + stir.– No Recipe: Lotion, shampoo, sour cream, mud, craft glue, milk, toothpaste.Stuff with good paint “texture” but not much color: Here are some places to start Paint Material Ideas:
#Make your own umark paint pen paint how to
Part of this challenge is to figure out how to make paint out of materials, ingredients, and supplies you already have. There are many, many ways to make homemade paint. You will be able to choose whether your submission is included in our Gallery of Excellence and if you’d like to receive a Certificate of Awesome in the mail! Materials Inspiration Show us that your paint works by making a paintingĭid you make an artistic masterpiece from homemade paint? What did you use to create your homemade paint? Use the link above to submit a photo, video, or story that documents your paint creation.

No need to buy anything, get creative with what you already have, ideas below

What do you do? Make paint from scratch! Humans have been making paint for millenia using whatever materials they’ve had on hand in or near their home. Say you run out of paint, but you’ve got a blank canvas or piece of paper that is just begging to be made into a painting.
