Marbled Milk Paper

The dish soap mixing with the colored milk creates such mesmerizing swirls.

Marbled milk paper.

This method will pleasantly surprise you. We were sure to keep the colors from being a brown mess in the milk and when we swirled the food coloring were very gentle. Drape them into the milk and watch the colors creep across the paper towel. Just make sure the paste has to be thick enough to carry the color and that the paper isn t too thick.

There are a few different ways to create marbled paper but if you ask us the milk method is by far the coolest. We used almond milk for our rainbow milk marbled paper purely due to the fact that we wanted to keep the paper and cows milk when it goes off has a funky smell well my nose thinks it does. This technique is meant to complement or be used as an add on activity to milk painting. Rainbow milk marbled paper art.

It is a very messy activity and. Written instructions and materials list. Use wheat rice or flour paste and acrylic color to create a marvelous marbled paper. I used gel food coloring this time and it sunk to the bottom of my milk so you can t see it in the picture i ve used regular food coloring in the past and it was much more visible.

The combination of science and art makes marbled milk paper a fantastic hands on steam activity. Fill a shallow baking dish or pie tin with about 1 2 an inch of milk or so 2 or whole. It s amazing how fast the colors creep across the towel and how they become marbled all on their own. Updated on july 14 2019 june 16 2018 by whimsyroo leave a comment on marbled milk paper project this project was almost soothing for me and kept roo entertained for awhile.

Marbled milk paper walking water secret watercolour messages colour changing flowers family fun airplane entertainment day of pumpkins. However you can use any form of milk including nut milks soya milk oat milk goats milk and good old cows milk. I experimented with a few techniques before deciding on the one that worked best for us and that i am sharing here.