Painting on paper can get boring after a while, so why not try painting with kids using bread and edible paint? You will have all these ingredients to hand at home and it is such a simple activity for the children. I guarantee that they will love it! This activity gives the children an opportunity to experiment with different textures which is great for sensory development and creativity.
Edible paint
There are lots of ways to make edible paint but I choose to use flour, water, and food colouring as I think that they give the best consistency. I have also seen edible paint being made with sugar, hot water and food colouring. This gives a more syrup type consistency. I prefer using flour as the base ingredient because it mixes well and you can have it as thick or thin as you like, you just add more water or more flour.
Photos of the boys doing this activity
It wouldn’t be a proper blog post if I didn’t have a few photos in here now would it?
Things to learn from painting with kids using bread activity:
- Sensory development – the chance to use bread to paint on instead of paper gives a different texture and feel to the way that they paint
- Language and communication – talking through how the consistency changed when we added too much flour and/or water – using vocabulary such as: runny, gloopy, thick, watery etc
- Understanding the world – learning how they can use everyday items to be creative with
- Creative development – this activity really lets them show off their creative side by using different ingredients in new ways that they wouldn’t have thought of using to paint with
Our vlog
We thought this activity would be a good one to vlog so here it is:
From the Raw Childhood community
We have had someone from our #RawChildhood Instagram community try this activity for themselves after spotting our Instagram post with the idea!
Here’s our post:
Bread painting take 2. It went well! We actually managed to record it too to go on our YouTube channel! Hallelujah! ? it was actually enjoyable! We started some major work on our cardboard car too and have redesigned it and painted it so tomorrow we will be painting the finishing touches ?
Here is the post from the community:
EDIBLE BREAD PAINTING – Inspired by the amazing @rawchildhood blog and instagram page. the kids loved making paints from food colouring, water & flour. they also loved creating ‘unicorn bread’ – such a fun idea thank you #rawchildhood #breadpainting #creativefun #artfun #art #creative #creativekids #unicornbread #breadart #painting #ediblepaint #kidsfun #ourcandidlife #kidslife #candidchildhood #fun #childhoodunplugged #artistickids
How cool is that?! I am so glad your children enjoyed the activity!
We will be back soon with more activity ideas!
This is so cool! We did this one, but I must admit ours didn’t turn out as nice as the ones you did. (Hence – that’s why I didn’t blog about it. lol!) I love the rainbow one best! Looks like the boys had an awesome time making it too. 🙂
Thank you so much for linking up with us on #FabFridayPost
What a fun idea great read Thank you for linking to #ThatFridayLinky Please come back next week
We have used this type of paint on the driveway too, which was also fun! ? #fabfridaypost
I love this post! I have tried this with nursery aged children and they love it but I had forgotten about it! Doh (its my age!) Your youngest is the cutest thing and looks like he is having the best time! #thatfridaylinky
This looks so much fun! I’d never have thought to do this! Thanks for linking up to #ThatFridayLinky