How to make your own puffy paint

Kids love painting and puffy paint is even more fun! Did you know you could make your own using 3 ingredients you probably have at home?

It’s easy, cheap and looks amazing; the kids will be sure to love it.

DIY puffy paint

What you’ll need:

Shaving cream
white school glue
food dye

Method:

1. Mix equal parts of shaving cream and glue in a bowl.

2. Add a few drops of colour and mix.

3. Repeat to make more colours as desired.

4. Your paint is ready to use, use generous amounts when painting.

5. Leave your painting to dry.

My kids love puffy paint but it’s expensive to buy, this is a great alternative. I’ll definitely be making some for the upcoming school holidays

Have you made puffy paint before? Please add your comments below.

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27 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 30 Jul 2023
    9:33 am
looks like loads of fun

- - DaffyD said
  - 17 Feb 2020
    4:04 pm
I haven’t seen puffy paint since I was a kid. How fun thanks

- - mom101628 said
  - 02 Feb 2020
    10:33 pm
My grandkids had great fun with this over the holidays – thanks so much for sharing the recipe.

- - mom290396 said
  - 22 Jan 2020
    2:52 pm
Looks like epic fun! I’m sure the kids would think so too!

- - mom303889 said
  - 22 Jan 2020
    12:35 pm
This is great fun for school holidays!

- - rovermum said
  - 22 Jan 2020
    9:42 am
I know a little 4 year old girl who would just love this.

- - tessie said
  - 21 Jan 2020
    12:26 pm
What a brilliant idea.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 21 Jan 2020
    8:47 am
Great idea!

- - Ellen said
  - 21 Jan 2020
    7:11 am
Looks fun, but I would be afraid my youngest would like to eat this

- - nealsq said
  - 20 Jan 2020
    10:04 pm
oh my boys will love this!

- - mom200556 said
  - 20 Jan 2020
    9:14 pm
Ooh love this, will have to give it a try

- - Frankiielot said
  - 20 Jan 2020
    8:06 pm
Oh my gosh, I love this!
It totally reminds me of the 90s when I was a kid and had puff pens for my clothes.
I’m screaming at how cute this idea is. (:

- - mom81879 said
  - 28 Nov 2019
    10:24 am
I have seen another version of puffy paint. You mix baking powder with a little water and food colouring. Paint a picture, zap in microwave for a few secs and it’s meant to puff up. Haven’t actually tried it yet

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Sep 2016
    7:52 pm
what a fun project to try cheers for posting this

- - Melissa89 said
  - 29 Jul 2016
    11:17 am
This is really cool. Never seen anything like it before

- - wendy_adhofer said
  - 13 Jun 2016
    6:55 pm
Wow awesome, I wonder how the paint stays puffy.

- - mom156049 said
  - 06 May 2016
    11:15 am
What a great idea. I remember using fabric puffy paint as a child. It was great to paint our own pictures on a plain tshirt which we could then wear and show off

- - Threelos said
  - 23 Apr 2016
    9:00 pm
I might try this again as I did it a while ago without knowing quantities and it totally deflated/flattened out when dried. Mustn’t have used enough glue.

- - mom176887 said
  - 20 Apr 2016
    7:40 pm
Interesting.. never knew shaving foam set so solid

- - june11 said
  - 18 Apr 2016
    9:02 pm
A rainbow. One of the favourite things my kids love. The elder one loves drawing them. Food colouring isn’t expensive and you can combine colours to vary them even more.