Marbling Paper With Vegetable Oil

We used mead s academie wirebound sketch diary paper.

Marbling paper with vegetable oil.

It s messy but worth it. Put about 1 2 tablespoon of cooking oil into a small bowl. The first time we worked on this we did it outside. Marbling with oil and food coloring is beautiful.

We also used some little condiment cups with lids to mix our oil and food coloring but you could use any container with a lid. Lift the paper to reveal your marbled paper. Blend a tablespoon of vegetable oil. We d seen several methods but we had almost all the supplies to marble with oil paints so we decided to try that out first.

Having the best oil paints can make creating these easier. All you need is some vegetable oil some liquid food coloring a shallow tray or dish and some decently heavy paper. Learn how to make marble paper. But it was a long fun day.

We used baby oil in addition to vegetable oil and discovered that no matter what oil it still repels against water. We purposely left ours in there a few hours our toddler loved dunking the paper in the water. In anticipation for this visit we made lists of possible crafts and paper marbling appeared on both lists. If you used different oils did you notice a difference.

We still love marbling paper with shaving cream but the effect is completely different with oil. Also see if you can find the hidden mickey. We did this years ago when maia was 3 and it was past time to give it another go.