Make your own bath paint - Arts, Crafts and DIY

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Bath paints are FUN FUN FUN!! Often however, they contain soap, which is no problem for most kids, but if your child is like mine and has sensitive skin, this is a great alternative – that can be used every day – FUN FUN FUN!!

Material

Corn starch
Water
Food Colouring

Method

Add equal parts of corn starch and water, mix well.
For a fun bath I used about 1/2 a cup of each.
Divide into smaller containers, or like we did - use an ice tray - as it has great little separate compartments!
Into each container (or compartment) add a little food colouring. A little will go along way, I literally dipped a toothpick into the food coloring and then into each compartment. Stir Stir Stir!!
Your bath paint is now ready. If you make it in advance it may need a stir before using as the cornstarch settles.

Notes

After we played in the bath I was completely able to spray it all off, you may want to be careful around grouting, and if you are worried, test some first, before the artist arrives.

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- Emma Owl
- 13 Nov 2014
  3:30 pm

90 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 30 Mar 2022
    11:55 am
So easy and such a lot of fun

- - mom465683 said
  - 13 Mar 2022
    2:32 pm
Thanks for sharing. Good idea.

- - shanika said
  - 28 Jun 2021
    11:30 am
I never tried this. Thanks for sharing.

- - tessie said
  - 25 Jun 2021
    12:00 pm
What an ingenious way to get kids to enjoy bathtime.

- - rovermum said
  - 21 Jun 2021
    2:08 pm
So simple and clever. I needed this many years ago.

- - mom101628 said
  - 19 Jun 2021
    11:59 pm
This would have been wonderful for when my children were younger. Thanks for your sharing article.

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 19 Jun 2021
    8:38 am
This is so clever, I didn’t even realise you could do that with corn starch!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    4:39 pm
I bet it doesn’t’ stain like the bought ones

- - mom152736 said
  - 11 Apr 2020
    9:25 pm
wooooh who could have thought!… love it totally.

- - Jennifer said
  - 16 Mar 2020
    9:10 pm
Looks like fun for the kids, not so much for mum once they are done

- - Jbuttxx said
  - 22 Dec 2019
    7:05 am
What happened if you don’t wash it off properly? Just thinking incase it gets somewhere and I miss it when cleaning up.

- - mom81879 said
  - 30 May 2019
    8:09 pm
Wouldn’t this dry and set hard on the bath? So I’ll have cleaned the kids and have to clean the bath!? Not sure I’m keen on that

- - MrsA said
  - 17 Mar 2019
    10:09 pm
This looks like so much fun. Don’t think my husband will be impressed though.
- MrsA replied
  
  25 Mar 2019 , 2:31 pm
  Showed my husband, he isn’t happy about me wanting to do this one. Haha.
- - kjgarner said
  - 22 Jun 2018
    9:25 pm
Would the dye stain your bath though?

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Jul 2017
    5:19 pm
Thanks SO much for this. I’ve seen some products like this in stores but they always have a ton of nasty chemicals in them so I never buy them.
- kjgarner replied
  
  28 Jun 2018 , 8:34 pm
  These have great ingredients and you know what is in them
- - natct said
  - 13 Jul 2017
    7:26 am
So simple and kid friendly my three will love it thankyou.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 12 Jul 2017
    4:29 pm
Oh I wish I knew this recipe when my girls were much younger as I think they are a little too old to enjoy this.

- - mom90758 said
  - 12 Jul 2017
    1:52 pm
Oh! My daughter would have enjoyed this when she was younger!!

- - rovermum said
  - 12 Jul 2017
    9:39 am
Wow, how very clever is this? And I love the ice tray as a palette. Very clever.

- - ella12 said
  - 11 Jul 2017
    4:15 pm
I have not heard of these but thanks.