Making your own art supplies is a simple way to help your family afford the homeschool life. There are tons of homemade recipes to choose from online, so if you don’t find what you’re looking for here just try your favorite search engine or Pinterest. And as an added bonus, many of the recipes are nontoxic and some are even edible.
Here’s our list of 20 homemade art supplies to get you started!
Homemade Art Supplies
Visit the Happy Hooligans and make homemade watercolor paints.
Get Your Mess On! shows you how to make puffy paint.
Turn dried out water-based markers into liquid watercolor paint like Finding My Marbles.
Make homemade cornstarch paint with The Cheese Thief.
Use this simple recipe to make homemade face and body paint from Blog Me Mom.
Let Blog Me Mom also show you how to make homemade cornstarch clay.
Here’s a DIY paint with water book from One Good Thing By Jillee.
Add extra fun to bath time with this bubble bath paint recipe at Meet the Dubiens.
Kids will love the bright colors (and smell!) in this Koolaid playdough recipe from Homeschool Creations.
Try this gluten free playdough recipe from Creative with Kids for those with celiac or a gluten allergy.
You can make your own non-toxic homemade glue at SustainableEcho.
Creative Playhouse shows you how to make homemade modeling clay.
Mama Jenn has a tutorial for DIY colored sand to use in your art projects.
Find 8 ideas to make your own stamps at Lines Across.
Turn a paper plate in a homemade painter’s palette like The Left Coast Mama.
You could also make a table easel or an outdoor easel as seen at Teach Preschool.
Make homemade sidewalk chalk with Confessions of a Homeschooler.
Your kiddos are sure to love this finger paint recipe out of pudding at Homespun With Love.
Homespun Threads shares how to make your own window paint.
Use salt to make this homemade glitter at Learn Create Love.
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Thanks so much for sharing our water colours! This is a great round up of homemade craft recipes. I’m off to pin it now!
Thank you, Jackie! 🙂
This is one amazing post. So good.
Wow, this is a great post. I wanna do it all right now!!! Lol