Well, I’ve mentioned before how much I love the ideas from Jean over at The Artful Parent… and THIS idea for Microwave Puffy Paint is no exception! What a super fun way to tie in cooking with art! Becca really loved this one. We made the puffy paint (recipe below), and then used Duple blocks to make prints on cardstock paper. Then, we watched them puff up. It was amazing. And super, super fun. I think we’ll have to do it again soon. Note: this recipe makes a LOT of paint! We had some left over, which I’m attempting to keep in the fridge. We’ll let you know how that works out.
We also added colored glitter to ours… which added some sparkle to our pictures, but not as much as I would have thought. Live and learn. Probably not a real great idea to add glitter to this paint… it doesn’t really show up, and just wastes glitter.
The recipe:
Microwave Puffy Paint
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1 cup water
Food coloring
Whisk your flour, salt, and water together really, really well – so there are no clumps. Then divide, and add your food coloring.
You can put it into squeeze bottles, or dip items like we did. Do your painting, then stick the cardstock, cardboard, or paper plate into the microwave for about 30 seconds. Watch it puff up! If you don’t have much paint on your page, it won’t take the whole 30 seconds. If you have a lot more, it might take a little longer.
Enjoy!!! It’s SOOOO much fun!
Butterbees and Bumbleflies 
After you cook it does it stay on the paper or crumble off?
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It hasn’t so far! I will say, if your kids were allowed to pick at it, it would come off, yes.
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