Homemade Mod Podge (matte)

Fill jar half way up with white glue (like PVA)
Then fill jar up with water.
Shake Well.

This is a 50-50 mixture glue/water.

It will have a Matte finnish.

If you would like a Glossy finnish, add 1 Tablespoon of clear varnish.

Shake it!

DIY Homemade Glitter

There is always a time, place, and need for glitter! Why make a trip to the craft store when you can just make it at home?

Steps:
Preheat the oven to 350. Place salt (table salt/sea salt) into a small bowl. Add drop of food coloring and mix with the salt. Spread mixture onto a baking sheet in one layer. Bake in oven for 10 minutes. Let cool, then transfer into a storage container for use.

This is incredibly cool.

Big Bubbles

2 cups Dawn dishwashing liquid
6 cups water
3/4 cup ight corn syrup

Mix ingredients in bucket. Let settle 3 - 4 hours. Makes super big bubbles

Soap Crayons - Recipe 2

Do you have little ones who love to play in the bath? Here is how to make your own soap crayon that are perfect for those baths!

Mild powdered laundry soap
Food colouring
Ice cube trays or other small molds
Water

Add about 1 cup of the powdered laundry soap to bowl. Slowly add water by the teaspoon until it becomes a thick liquid mixture. Stir well and begin adding food colouring until it is the colour you like. Pour into icecube trays or other small mold. Set in a sunny, dry spot for a few days to allow crayons to harden. When har d, remove from mold and use!

Note
Test on your bathtub sides and walls before allowing your child to use them.

Soap Crayons - Recipe 1

1 cup soap flakes
2 Tablespoons water
1 Tablespoons cooking oil
Food colouring (strong colours)

Mix all the ingredients together making sure there is lots of colour, until it is a thick paste with no lumps. Roll into thick crayon like sticks. Leave for a fewdays to dry.

Fairy Dust

Aloe vera gel
Fine glitter
Bowl
Teaspoon
Small pots with lids

In a clean bowl, mix together 12 teaspoonfuls of aloe vera gel and about 1/2 teaspoon of fine glitter.

Spoon the mixture into each pot. Dcorate the lid with glitter, a sticker or a salt dough flower.
Dab a little glitter on yoru cheeks or on your shoulders and arms. Take care not to use glitter near your eyes.

Craft tip
Aloe vera is very gentle, but if you have sensitive skin do a test patch first. Rub a tiny bit of the gel on the inside of your wrist and leave for an hour. Do not use the gel if it makes your skin red and itchy.

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Salt and Flour Finger Paint

2 cups flour
2 teaspoon salt
3 cups cold water
2 cups hot water
Food colouring

Add the salt to the flour in a saucepan. Pour in cold water gradually and beat the mixture with an egg beater until smooth. Add the hot water and boil the mixture until it becomes glossy. Beat it until it is smooth. Mix in food colouring.

Bubble Painting

1/2 cup water
1/4 cup powdered tempera paint
2 teaspoon dish washing liquid

Mix the ingredients together in a small, shallow bowl. Having blank pieces of white nearby. Using a plastic drinking straw, carefully blow into the mixture until a dome of bubles form over the bowl.

Create a bubble print by placing a piece of paper on top of the bubbles and gently pressing down. The bubbles will pop against the paper, leaving an interesting print. Allow to dry. If desired, mix together several colours of bubble-paint mixture in different bowls and repeat the process in several colours on the same paper.

Finger Painting

1 cup cornflour
1 litre water
1 cup soap flakes (optional)
A few drops of food colouring
A few drops of dettol, eucalypus or tea tree oil (optional)

Put the cornflour into a saucepan.

Add about 2 Tablespoons of water and mix to a smooth paste.

Add the rest of the water, turn on the heat and then stir the mixture until it starts to thicken. (Tip: for a smoother, better result, add soap flakes. This will also stop the kids eating the paint).

Pour into seperate containers and add a different food colouring to each container.

To store - put the lids on containers and keep in the fridge for 2 or 3 days. If you want to keep the paint any longer add up to two drops of dettol, eucalyptus or tea tree oil, but having done that, don't allow the kids to eat the paint.

Play Dough Recipe

1 cup flour
1 cup warm water
2 teaspoons cream of tarter
1 teaspoon oil
1/4 cup salt
Food coloring

Mix all ingredients (add food coloring last). Stir over medium heat until smooth. Remove from pan, let cool slightly, and knead until blended and smooth. Store in a plastic bag or airtight container when cooled.

Bath Salt Recipe

Plain bath salts (like Epsom salts)
Essential oil of your choice
Powder or paste food colouring (not liquid)
Glass jar
Pretty fabric
Ribbon

Put some of the plain bath salts into an old bowl. Put in a tiny amount of essential oil (about 2 drops for every cup of salts) and a tiny amount of food colouring. Stir well with an old wooden spoon until all of the salts absorb the colour. Repeat with as many different colours as you like.

Carefully pour the salts into a clean jar (we layered different colours).

Cut a square of fabric to fit over the lid of the jar, tie in place with some pretty ribbon.

Make your own glitter glue

School glue
An empty squeeze bottle (like a glue bottle)
Glitter

Fill your empty bottle about half full with glue. You simply add glitter to the glue in the bottle in the amount you choose. You may wish to enlarge the hole on your squeeze bottle if the glitter blocks up the opening. Apply it to your project. If you would like, sprinkle glitter over the still wet glue on your project for a more glitzy look. Allow your project to then dry for around 24 hours.

Wallpaper / Papier Mache Paste

1 ½ cups white flour
½ cup sugar
1 Tablespoon alum
1 cup cold water
2 cups boiling water

Combine flour and sugar. Slowly add cold water and beat / mix out any lumps. Put mixture in a saucepan over a medium heat. Add the boiling water, and stirring constantly, bring the mixture to the boil. When stiff, remove from heat and add alum. Store in airtight container. Should keep for several weeks. If the paste hardens, soften by mixing in small amounts of warm water as needed.

Basic Waterproof Glue

6 Tablespoons water
2 packets unflavoured gelatine
2 Tablespoons white vinegar
2 teaspoons glycerine

Bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in gelatine until it is dissolved. Add vinegar and glycerine and stir well. Let the mixture cool slightly and pour into a jar and seal tightly.

To use: This glue is best applied while warm. Apply to surfaces using a brush. Glue will gel after a few days.

To reuse: Warm by placing the jar in a pan of hot water. Good for binding leather to leather, fabrics to cardboard, paper to paper.

Slime

1 cup PVA glue
1 cup water
3 – 4 capfuls food colouring
4 level teaspoons harpers Borax
½ cup hot water
Mixing bowl
Empty jar

In your bowl combine the PVA glue, cup of water and food colouring and mix together thoroughly.

In your empty jar mix the borax and hot water by placing on the lid and shaking til mixture is well combined.

Add the borax mixture to the glue mixture in your bowl. You will obtain a very thick clump of slime where the two mix. Simply knead and mix the ingredients with you hands until you have a smooth and elastic type mixture.

Soap Crayons

1 cup of soap flakes
2 Tablespoon water
1 Tablespoon cooking oil
Food colouring (strong colours)

Mix all the ingredients together making sure there is lots of colour, until it is a thick paste with no lumps. Roll into thick crayon like sticks. Leave for a few days to dry.

Paper Paste

1/3 cup non self raising wheat flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 cup water
¼ teaspoon oil of cinnamon

Mix flour and sugar in a saucepan. Gradually add water, stirring vigorously to break up lumps.

Cook over low heat until clear, stirring constantly.

Remove from stove and add oil of cinnamon. Stir until well blended. Makes about 1 cup. Spread paste with a brush or tongue depressor. Soft, smooth, thick and white, paper paste has a good spreading consistency and is especially appropriate for use with small children or for any paste up work. The paste can be stored in a covered jar for several weeks without refrigeration.