How To Make The Dough Paint
Mix salt and Hour with a few spoonfuls of water. Keep adding water, a spoonful at a time, until the mixture is as soft as the dough your mother uses for eookies.
When the dough is just right, put some in each of your containers. Then add a spoonful of tempera to each container, and mix it in with the dough.
Paint on with fingers
Dip the colored soapsuds from the jar with your lingers and paint on some brown wrapping paper.
II you want a darker color, add more coloring until you get the shade you want.
When your picture is finished, let it dry. Ask your mother to help von press it with a warm iron to smooth out anv wrinkles in the paper. Finger-paint designs make beautiful wrapping paper for gifts.
Von can also finger-paint on things made of glass and plastic. If vou do. put shellac over your picture to protect it.
HOW TO FINGER PAINT
Shiny shelf paper is ihe best kind to finger-paint on.
Wet the paper in a pan of water or under a water faucet. Spread it out smoothly on the newspapers. If the paper gels too dry before von finish painting, sprinkle some more water on it.
Spoon some paint I mm the jar and put it on the paper.
Use your thumb and fingers for most of your picture. But also use the side of your hand and arm lor big. sweeping strokes. Use your finger tips and nails to make fine details.
Washable finger paint
GETTING READY
Finger painting is fun, but it can be messy, too. So before you start finger painting, put on a smock or apron, and cover the table or floor with newspapers where you plan to work.
FINGER PAINTING
With special finger paints, you can paint pictures with vonr lingers and hands instead of with a brush.
Finger paints are sold at art supply stores, stationery stores, variety stores, or dime stores. Or you can make your own finger paints by mixing starch and poster paint. Ask your mother to boil sonic laundry starch for you. Let it cool. Pour it into several jars, and mix a little poster paint with the starch a diller ent color in each jar.
