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If you don't have paint, you can try making your own. Simple ingredients used! And if you have paint, try this anyways. This project doubles as a great sensory/science experiment.

Once you've made the paint, let them use a toilet paper roll to create circles on paper, like in the picture below!

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Updated March 20, 2020
Originally Published February 26, 2017
Buying paint for kids or a classroom can be pricey! Never buy paint again with this 3 ingredient homemade paint recipe! This is a money saving DIY for parents and teachers on a budget (or for those of us who love being crafty!).
How to Make Homemade Paint

Making your own homemade paint with kids is a rewarding process that helps children understand that store-bought is not the only way! This recipe is simple, non-toxic, and it costs next to nothing to make. Not to mention it's pretty rewarding to make your own art materials.

How to Make Homemade Paint

One reader, Chantel, made the paint and used toilet paper tolls and cotton swabs for painting. She said, "Such a blast for the little ones!" You can use this paint as finger paint or regular brush paint as well.

You can use any containers you have on hand to store the paint. Or, you can find some online. The paint will separate after sitting for awhile. Simple shake the bottles up again and they will be as good as new!

You might also like these homemade activities for kids too!

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Updated March 20, 2020 Originally Published February 26, 2017 Buying paint for kids or a classroom can be pricey! Never buy paint again with this 3 ingredient homemade paint recipe! This is a money saving DIY for parents and teachers on a budget (or for those of us who love being crafty!).

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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Months of the Year Song | Song for Kids | The Singing Walrus

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"Teacher," Songs about Professions by StoryBots | Netflix Jr

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I Want To Become A Teacher - Kids Dream Job - Can You Imagine That?

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"Chef,” Songs about Professions by StoryBots | Netflix Jr

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DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD | Doctors are Grownups Who Help Us (Song) | PBS KIDS

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It's My Turn! | Read Aloud Children's Book

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📚 Kids Book Read Aloud: WE DON'T EAT OUR CLASSMATES by Ryan T. Higgins

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I'll Wait, Mr. Panda | Children's Story Read Aloud

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📚 Kids Book Read Aloud: SCAREDY SQUIRREL by Melanie Watt

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You'll need flour and either baby oil or vegetable oil. You can also add in drops of food coloring!

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full disclosure. Are you looking for a fun sensory activity to keep your kids busy? This DIY moon sand uses only 2 ingredients for hours of fun!
I bet you're here looking for my moon sand recipe so you can keep your kids busy. Am I right? Awesome! You're going to love it!

I know I'm always looking for ways to keep my girls busy - especially over school breaks! In my ongoing attempts to keep the girls busy over the summer, we came across a tutorial showing how to make what we have dubbed "Moon Sand" from just 2 simple ingredients most households have on hand.

Last year, the girls had an entire sand table full of new sand. Throughout the year however, that sand got distributed around the yard. They love playing with sand though, so I thought this would be a fun alternative, and a cool project to do together.
If you don't want to make it, you can also buy kinetic sand and skip to the fun 🙂
We did have to go to the Dollar Tree to pick up some baby oil, but we have a stockpile of flour that needs to be used up from our food storage, so it was a really inexpensive project for us.

I'm not sure if this would work with other oils, but if you give it a try with a different type of oil, let me know how it turns out and I'll add your feedback to the recipe.

The best part is that this moon sand is supposed to keep for a long time as long as you keep it in a sealed container. Right now we have it in a gallon ziploc bag, and it seems to be doing fine.

Just be sure to keep in mind that the Moon Sand is much messier than real sand. The girls play with it outside, and they always have to change their clothes afterwards. That's a fun part of childhood though, right?

Ready to learn how to make your own moon sand? Or buy Kinetic Sand if you'd rather not make it yourself!

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full disclosure. Are you looking for a fun sensory activity to keep your kids busy? This DIY moon sand uses only 2 ingredients for hours of fun! I bet you're here looking for my moon sand recipe so you can keep your kids busy. Am I right? Awesome!

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Items Needed: Paper, Fork, and Paint

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FLOWERS: ORIGINAL PRESCHOOL ACTIVITIES - KIDS SIMPLE DRAWING for children, kids, babies

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Items Needed: 1 plate, a cup or 2 of milk, food coloring, a Qtip, and some dish soap.

We did this experiment in class this semester and the kids loved it! Another experiment to continue our rainbow color theme for the month. I will be recording myself and posting to Seesaw this week!

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Milk Food Coloring And Dish Soap Experiment ~ Incredible Science

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Sid the Science Kid - An episode about germs and washing hands

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Sid the Science Kid - An episode about germs and washing hands

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The Big Sneeze! | Sid the Science Kid FULL EPISODE | PBS KIDS

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Cutting, gluing, and assembly to make a fun kinetic APE TOY!!

Use things you have at home to cut, draw, glue and assemble.  A straw is needed which you can pick up at a fast food drive through or use something else you have at home like a pencil!

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Fun crafts for kids SWINGING MONKEY easy paper DIY

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"Don't Monkey Around!" Try an online puzzle!

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On-line jigsaw puzzles with various themes.

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How do they sound??  Listen to these apes for fun then see if you can make these sounds too!!  Your MOM will love it!!!

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APES for Kids - Learning Ape Names and Sounds for Children

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How do chimpanzees talk to each other?? Watch this!!

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How to Speak Chimpanzee | Extraordinary Animals | BBC Earth

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Want to learn more about Apes and Monkeys!?  Look Here:

Jane Goodall Organization

https://www.janegoodall.org.uk/

Jane Goodall Roots and Shoots for Kids Organization

https://www.rootsnshoots.org.uk/