Having the best oil paints can make creating these easier.
Marbling paper with vegetable oil.
Blend a tablespoon of vegetable oil.
We used mead s academie wirebound sketch diary paper.
But it was a long fun day.
Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
We d seen several methods but we had almost all the supplies to marble with oil paints so we decided to try that out first.
It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have.
If you used different oils did you notice a difference.
Water vegetable oil food coloring tray 3 containers directions.
We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.
Lift the paper to reveal your marbled paper.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.
The first time we worked on this we did it outside.
Put about 1 2 tablespoon of cooking oil into a small bowl.
In anticipation for this visit we made lists of possible crafts and paper marbling appeared on both lists.
We also used some little condiment cups with lids to mix our oil and food coloring but you could use any container with a lid.
We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil.
We used baby oil in addition to vegetable oil and discovered that no matter what oil it still repels against water.
Paper you will want to use something a little thicker than regular paper.
We purposely left ours in there a few hours our toddler loved dunking the paper in the water.