Liquid watercolors or food coloring.
Marbling paper with food coloring and oil.
I had to try it to find out.
The idea that you could transfer a swirly pattern of colours onto a piece of paper just by pressing the paper into a pan of shaving cream kind of perplexed me.
And because it uses foam instead of water there s less chance of your pigment settling to the bottom of the pan.
Food coloring and oil.
Spoons for stirring mixing the colors.
All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper.
Paper crafts are always fun but when i first heard about marbling with shaving cream and food colour i was skeptical.
We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil.
Sep 3 2019 marbling with oil and food coloring is one of the easiest ways to marble paper and it uses materials you likely already have at home.
Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.
Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.
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.
It s one of the easiest ways to marble paper with kids and uses materials you likely already have.
Let s get creative and fun in this marbling with oil crafts.
Was the result worth it.
It s messy but worth it.
Kai enjoyed mixing the pans of water oil and coloring but then i m pretty sure that he would have enjoyed it just as much on a small scale like a small bowl or maybe even in a jar.
The shaving foam not cream method is one of the easiest least expensive and most kid friendly methods of marbleizing paper.
Vegetable oil we also experimented with baby oil little bowls for individual colors.
My four year old and i tried a pinterest inspired paper marbling technique using food dye and cooking oil.