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Condensed Milk Edible Paint

ice cube tray with paint while a hand paints a rainbow with a yellow brush

By Sharla Kostelyk

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We had so much fun with this condensed milk painting. The edible paint produces beautiful glossy art. Your kids will love the end results and the process to get there!yellow paintbrush dipped in red paint in ice cube tray as a rainbow is painted below. Text reads "Condensed Milk Edible Paint"Condensed milk paint was something I stumbled upon. A week or so ago, I opened up a can of condensed milk for a recipe only to discover that the recipe actually called for evaporated milk!

This left me with an opened can of condensed milk sitting in my fridge. I was going to just throw it out until I came across an idea to do condensed milk painting!

Making this edible paint is so easy.

Condensed Milk Edible Paint Recipe:

  • 300 mL or 415 mL can sweetened condensed milk (10 – 14 oz.)
  • food colouring
  • ice cube tray
  • toothpicks (optional)
  1. Fill an ice cube tray with condensed milk.
  2. Add one or two drops of food colouring in each cube.
  3. Use toothpicks to stir them.
  4. The paint is now ready to use.
  5. Use paintbrushes (or fingers) to paint on paper. You can use regular paper, card stock, or finger paint paper.

a blue ice cube tray is filled with paint colours and a rainbow is being painted on a white paper

This edible paint recipe is included in the Sensory Play Recipes eBook. You’ll find so many easy sensory ideas inside. You can get a free sample using the form below.

My kids really enjoyed using this paint to create pictures. The pictures turned out so well. The paint gave a shiny, glossy finish. The kids were really pleased with the cool effect of that.

Even after the paint dries, it maintains its shiny look.ice cube tray with paint while a hand paints a rainbow with a yellow brush

Each of the kids wanted to try tasting the paint. Snuggle Puppy ate almost as much as he painted with! Condensed milk painting is a simple sensory activity. It engages the visual, tactile and gustatory (taste) sensory systems.

I love suggesting this activity to other moms because most people already have the ingredients needed in their kitchens. This makes it an easy last minute or rainy day activity.

Because it is taste-safe, condensed milk paint is also great for toddlers and even babies to play with. It can also be used as finger paint.

Other easy homemade sensory recipes you might want to check out:

Shaving Cream Painting Lavender Scented Bubbles 

Soap Foama black child's hand is reaching up from a bin of soap foam holding blue and pink soap foam. The bin contains areas of pink, blue, purple, and yellow soap foam.

Textured Butter Slime

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Bubble Painting!

By Sharla Kostelyk

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Bubble painting is something I’d been wanting to try for awhile, but it sounded complicated, so I wanted to wait for the right time. The right time came along one afternoon last week when only the girls were home. As it turns out, it was easy and I could have done it with all the kids!bowl of red bubbles and in the background, paper with coloured bubbles. Text reads "Bubble Painting for kids"

All you need are a few simple items. Most of them you may already have around the house. You can see in the video below how easy this project is to do.

Bubble Painting:

Supplies needed:

  • dish soap
  • washable tempera paint
  • straws
  • paper
  • newspaper or butcher paper 

Bubble Painting Recipe:

Use a ratio of 4 Tbsp. dish soap to 2 Tbsp. of the paint.

Directions:

  1. Put newspaper or butcher paper down on the table to protect it from mess.
  2. In shallow bowls, mix the dish soap with paint. Make up a separate mixture for each colour.
  3. Have your child blow bubbles in the paint mixture using a drinking straw until the bubbles are at the top of or above the bowl.
  4. Gently place a paper on top and allow the bubbles to pop before removing the paper. Do the same with other colours. The more coloured bubbles you create on the paper, the cooler the effect.
  5. Once the desired look is achieved, allow the paper to dry flat.

I was hoping that by using primary colours, we would also get some colour mixing, but even when overlapping, the colours don’t mix on the paper because the paint is so thin with it being created with a bubble.

This was a fun and easy craft and used household items. It’s an inexpensive art project for kids. I wish we had done it sooner and I am sure that we will do it again soon because the boys want to try!There were lots of giggles while the girls were blowing the bubbles. This project incorporates visual, tactile, proprioception, and gustatory (oral) sensory input. 

As for all kids’ activities, adult supervision should be used.  

Join me for a free 5 part email series Sensory Solutions and Activities and get a sample of our Sensory Play Recipes eBook. 

Check out some of our other sensory play activities for kids:

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How to Make Coloured Moon Dough

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