The Best Homemade Paint Recipe with Flour

How to make paint at home is answered in a simple way with this easy paint recipe. You can make paint in a few minutes with 3 kitchen ingredients, color, flour & dish soap. Kids love to participate in the paint making process and then use the homemade paint for their next artwork masterpiece.

The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe - three bottles of homemade paint shown with a palette and paintbrushes on a white table - Kids Activities Blog
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Easy Homemade Paint Recipe

Whip up a batch of homemade craft paint, and then you can spend hours making masterpieces to decorate your home.

Related: More how to make paint ideas

This flour paint recipe is one of our favorites and works really well as homemade paint.

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This Craft Paint Recipe:

  • Yields: 3 colors
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 5 minutes
Supplies Needed for The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe - pan, whisk, colors, flour, water and dish soap shown on white table
This is what you will need to make the paint recipe.

Supplies Needed

  • 1 ½ cups cold water
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon cold water
  • 1 tablespoon liquid dish soap
  • Coloring, gel paste works the best

How to Make Flour Paint

Step 1 - The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe - flour in water shown in pan
Let’s start by combining the water and flour.

Step 1

In a small saucepan, whisk together the 1 ½ cups water and flour until smooth. Stir the flour well so you don’t end up with lumpy paint!

Step 2 - The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe flour and water combined together in the pan
Your paint recipe consistency should be smooth!

Step 2

Heat on the stove until thickened, stirring constantly over medium high heat. The mixture should be the consistency of pudding and should coat the sides of the pan.

Step 3 - The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe - paint recipe mixture covered with plastic wrap
The next step is to cover the mixture.

Step 3

Remove from heat and place a piece of plastic wrap on the surface of the mixture. Be careful not to burn yourself on the hot paint mixture or pan.

The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe
Now let’s let your paint mixture cool.

Step 4

Cool to lukewarm, about 20 minutes.

Step 5 - The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe whisk everything together until smooth

Step 5

Remove plastic wrap and whisk in 1 tablespoon water and dish soap until combined well and smooth.

Step 6 - The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe - adding color to the mixture - blue paint shown here

Step 6

Divide paint into separate containers and add coloring, mix until well combined.

Step 7 - The Best Homemade Craft Paint Recipe - put homemade paint in jars for storage
You can store your homemade paint by color in a jar with a lid.

Step 7

Transfer to jar with lid for storing.

Finished best paint recipe for crafts - jars of finished paint with lids and a palette with paint brushes.
Our finished paints are so fun to use for painting!

Finished Homemade Paint Recipe

Homemade craft paint placed into cute little jars, along with a printed copy of the recipe, a plastic palette, table easel, paintbrushes, small canvas, and a smock would make the sweetest gift for your favorite little artist!

Best Painting Tools for Kids

  1. Did you know that there are different paintbrushes for kids, based on their age? Larger paintbrushes are easier for toddlers to hold!
  2. Don’t forget an art smock! Not only will your little one feel the part of being an artist, it will help protect their clothing! 
  3. An artist needs an easel! There also cute tabletop easels that are inexpensive and take up less room.
  4. Mix up amazing colors in your artist palette

OUr Experience Making Flour Paint at Home

When my daughter was little, I could easily fill an entire day with preparations for her “art show” that we would enjoy later on that night. She would spend hours painting, and creating art show invitations. 

Using either fishing line and mini clothespins, or a retractable clothing line, I hung her paintings–with a dual purpose of allowing them to dry, while being on display. Then, I helped her create little tags with titles for her drawings that we would hang on the wall next to the paintings.

Once we were dressed up, I prepped a small charcuterie board with cheese, crackers, grapes, and other little treats, along with shatterproof champagne flutes filled with sparking cider. With quiet jazz playing in the background, we snacked on our treats while discussing her beautiful creations.

This is a very inexpensive way to make amazing memories, and maybe even encourage a future artist! 

Yield: 3 Colors

Homemade Flour Paint

Homemade Flour Paint

There's no need to run out to the store the next time you run out of craft paint! It's super easy to make from 4 non-toxic household items!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Additional Time 5 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Materials

  • 1 ½ cups cold water
  • ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon cold water
  • 1 tablespoon liquid dish soap
  • Coloring, gel paste works the best

Instructions

    1. In a small saucepan, whisk together the 1 ½ cups water and flour until smooth.
    2. Heat until thickened, stirring constantly. The mixture should be the consistency of pudding and should coat the sides of the pan.
    3. Remove from heat and place a piece of plastic wrap on the surface of the mixture.
    4. Cool to lukewarm, about 20 minutes.
    5. Remove plastic wrap and whisk in 1 tablespoon water and dish soap until combined well and smooth.
    6. Divide paint into separate containers and add coloring, mix until well combined.
    7. Transfer to jar with lid for storing.

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What homemade flour paint colors did you make?

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