Edible Paint For Baby Finger Paint

Young kids love painting, but when they are really young (under 3) they tend to like to taste the paint too. That’s why you need this easy edible paint for baby recipe! Painting for kids goes through a progression of age appropriate activities. This taste safe paint is great for finger painting and it is a simple Non Toxic Homemade Paint For Babies that can wow your toddlers too!

Follow along with our directions to make your own homemade edible paint that is taste-safe, chemical-free, and technically edible (although I don’t advise serving it as a meal to your child).

Edible Paint

Want to make your own edible paint at home? You just need a few ingredients, and you probably already have everything you need right now in your kitchen! You’ve learned How to make play dough recipe, how to make puffy paint, How to Make Homemade Bubbles and used numerous science projects, but have you ever tried to make edible finger paint?

Edible Paint Ingredients:

Corn starch
Sugar
Water
Whisk
Gel food coloring
Small pot
Small containers (to hold the finished paint)
Watercolor paper
Paintbrushes

As you can see from the ingredients this edible paint is taste safe because it is made of food ingredients.

Directions for making homemade edible paint for baby:

Mix up your taste safe paint using the following ratios:

2 parts water
½ part corn starch
1 teaspoon or a tablespoon of sugar, depending on how much paint you’re making.

Boil your water on the stove. You can make as much or as little edible paint as you want using this recipe, but it won’t keep for very long, so I recommend only making enough to use in one session.

For our recipe, we used 2 cups of water and ½ a cup of corn starch with a teaspoon of sugar.

Once the water boils, add in your sugar. Let the sugar dissolve.

Sprinkle in the corn starch and whisk it to prevent clumping.

The mixture will start to thicken right away, and eventually turn into a clear slime-like substance.

If you don’t want a thick finger paint texture, use even less corn starch than we did. This will make your paint squeezable and a bit runny, while ours was thicker and felt more like finger paint.

Scoop the undyed paint into your containers. We used pickle jar lids and made the basic colors of the rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Use a fork to mix in your paint colors of choice.

Once the edible paint is completely cool, allow the kids to paint with it on watercolor paper.

You can also use regular paper, but the high moisture content of the paint may cause the paper to tear.

This paint may cause some staining on fingers or clothes, due to the use of gel food coloring. If you don’t want the paint to stain fingers or clothing, you could try using liquid food coloring in smaller amounts.

Using less food coloring will make the colors less vibrant, however.

The edible paint has a lighter texture than normal and real paint so the images come out more pastel like.

If food coloring stains fingers, simply wash with warm water and soap.

Some food coloring will wash out of some types of clothing, but some won’t. To be safest, dress your children in old clothing when using this paint, or make sure to provide painting smocks for the kids.