Children, regardless of the age, love painting! Their paintings vary from shapes, to everyday objects, or even just abstract art! As long as there’s a paintbrush in hand, you can only expect a masterpiece to follow! However, as much as we want them to have all the fun possible, paint can be difficult to wash of at times and also not good to eat! Toddlers would put ANYTHING in their mouths and this is one of those things we never want them to taste.

But what about painting with something else? With this kind of art.. the toddlers and kids can eat all the paint they want! Let’s paint with Kool-Aid!

This activity was originally meant to be a scratch n’ sniff activity, but the scent stayed on too long that we no longer needed to scratch it!

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What you will need

• Fruit patterns
• Powdered juice of different colors
• Water
• Cup
• CLEAN and STERILIZED paint brushes

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Preparation

Place some juice powder into a container and mix it with some water. The mixture is around 1/3 water and 2/3 Kool-Aid powder. But it’s really all up to you.

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Once you’re done preparing the  paint, hand the kids some clean brushes and let them paint away! The juice smells really good that I had a couple of students try licking their paint cups! Some didn’t even finish their work because their juicy paint somehow disappeared! Well, at least you don’t have to worry that they’ll eat it and get tummy aches right?