‘Sand’ Paint (ages 7-10)

Supplies:

  • Edible Canvas (enough for each guest to have one with 5 extra for mishaps and for you to give a demonstration)

  • Paintbrushes

  • (5 bottles) Light corn syrup

  • Food coloring

  • Pixie sticks (the miniature kind)

  • Paper plates

  • Small wax cups/mouthwash cups

 

How To Do It:

Put drops of food coloring in the corn syrup to make the primary colors or any others you’d like (red, yellow, blue, orange, purple and this can be done up to 2 months in advance.)

Pass out an edible canvas, 2-3 small paintbrushes, each pixie stick color, and 3 wax cups.

Give each child a small squirt of the colored syrup in the wax cups and let them paint the ‘glue’ on the ‘edible canvas.’

Once they have finished, they can sprinkle the pixie stick ‘sand’ on the canvas in swirls, lines, or any shape they like.

Make sure to take pictures before they eat their ‘art’ out!

 Variation: Omit the pixie sticks ‘sand’ and use the colored puddings or yogurt on either the pie dough or sugar cookie canvas, not phyllo- it’s much too delicate. And use the brushes to paint the colored pudding on the cookie canvas.