Make your own bath paint

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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

- - mom140882 said
  - 22 Jun 2017
    11:46 am
Exactly what my boys need on a rainy day like this! So glad i seen this 🙂

- - mom19782016 said
  - 27 Oct 2016
    11:47 am
We made these and they were tons of fun.

- - mom111059 said
  - 15 Aug 2016
    2:51 pm
How easy this is and economical. Thank you for sharing how to make bath paint

- - Melissa89 said
  - 05 Aug 2016
    1:20 pm
What a fantastic idea

- - Lori-Anne said
  - 30 Jul 2016
    7:24 pm
Going to make this in a couple of years for my daughter who will be a toddler by then. Going to have to write this one into my ideas book.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 02 Jul 2016
    5:18 am
Bath time could be so much fun now!

- - mom19782016 said
  - 23 Jun 2016
    6:51 am
Well, this will be a school holiday craft!

- - june11 said
  - 12 Mar 2016
    10:17 pm
I wonder if you could paint tiles with this too, or whether the food dye would stain the grout. It should be easy to clean off the bath provided it still has a perfectly smooth surface

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 08 Feb 2016
    3:11 pm
hah! super cute, love it….

- - Kasey said
  - 31 Dec 2015
    5:49 pm
very easy to make thanks for sharing

- - mom119776 said
  - 08 Dec 2015
    10:22 pm
Bath time is about to become more fun in our house. Thanks for the great idea.

- - mom109229 said
  - 28 Sep 2015
    11:21 am
I’ve never seen this before but will give it a go! Thanks!

- - mom113055 said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    5:33 pm
bath paint

- - dixigirl said
  - 11 Sep 2015
    10:08 am
What a great idea Thankyou

- - dannsbuild said
  - 10 Sep 2015
    9:19 pm
A good idea, thanks for sharing!

- - mom152736 said
  - 31 Aug 2015
    11:08 pm
nice colours n click

- - Kasey said
  - 31 Jul 2015
    4:42 pm
great idea thanks for sharing

- - mrsdew17 said
  - 30 Jul 2015
    12:15 am
Like that this doesn’t have soap. Thanks for the idea.

- - Meghannn said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    11:43 pm
This is he best!

- - memo said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    1:40 pm
you are a clever mum, problem solved