Recipe for Finger Paints

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cornstarch
3 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups cold water
food coloring

Directions:

1. In a medium pan, mix all the ingredients together. Cook over low heat 10-15 minutes. Make sure you keep stirring the mixture until the moment it turns from thin to thick.
2. After the finger pain has thickened, take the pan off the stove immediately, and let the mixture cool. I put into four bowls to cool.
3. In each bowl, I used several drops of food coloring to create the primary colors. You will need a lot more drops for red or it will be pink.

The finger paint will last for about 3 days in an airtight container. The mixture will become dry and hard to handle.

Very easy to make. Messy, but that is part of finger painting.