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How to Make Natural Colours for Your Child

Team StoryWeavers|May 19, 2023, 13:22 IST| 32

With schools and outdoor activities shut during this lockdown phase, for those with little kids,  these five weeks might prove daunting to keep the little ones occupied. After all, this is the age where children learn quickly and look for interesting and fun ways to get their hands dirty! In order to keep your children engaged indoors, here is a super cool DIY (Do It Yourself) activity for you and your children.

Paints with Natural Colours

When it comes to art and craft, children love to get messy with paints. They are always intrigued by bright and vibrant colours and love to paint their world in different colours. The tough part for the parents comes when their children, in the process of painting, spill paints all over themselves. After all, the paints which you get in stores may not always be safe for children. Hence, the best alternate option is to make your own paints using vegetables and fruits. They are 100% natural and safe for children and also a fun way to spend some quality time with your child.

All paints are types of dyes and are made of two things – pigments and binders. The role of the binder is to help the colour stay on the material you paint on.

You can create different shades of colours by mixing the three primary colours – red, yellow, and blue! To make these primary colours, you can use the following vegetables or fruits:

Let’s get started!

Materials needed

  • Vegetables / fruits
  • Rice flour/cornflour (which acts as a binding agent)
  • Water
  • Mixer Grinder or Blender

You can mix and match these three primary colours to get other colours. For example, mix the red from blended beetroots and yellow from the mangoes to get orange. Red and blue together make violet, and blue and yellow together make green.

These homemade paints are super easy to make and the best part is that they are edible too! Thus they are totally safe for your child to use.

So, let your children explore their imagination and paint their world in their favourite colours.

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About the Author


Books are Tanaya Goswami’s first love and cheesecakes come a close second. Talking about movies, music, calligraphy, politics, and Elon Musk will get you listed under the friends’ section of her diary. Ever since moving on from her job as an English lecturer, she spends her time at BYJU’S crafting stories filled with emotion and sprinkled with sarcasm. Outside of work, she’s either learning something new (French, most recently!) or is curled up with a book and a cup of coffee. She firmly believes that discovering what you don’t know is the key to knowledge and is constantly working towards improving herself. Drop in a line at storyweavers@byjus.com if you liked her stories, have something nice to say, or if you have compelling ideas to share!

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Yashaswini

November 3, 2020

Thanks


Parvathi Ajayakumar

October 30, 2020

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Aaradhya singh

June 24, 2020

It’s s very good thing if we use natural colours


Haarika

June 16, 2020

Wow very nice


Harshita Jha

June 15, 2020

Superb


Dhanvi

June 12, 2020

Hi I am dhanvi from byjus and I am in grade 4th


Varsha

June 9, 2020

Varsha says:????


KUNTAL NAIK

June 9, 2020

i bought it. it is really wast of money.


Manroop

June 8, 2020

Wow!


Bhuvi

June 8, 2020

Wow!very cool activitie


Shaghaf Khan

June 8, 2020

It’s really amazing??


Prasun

June 7, 2020

Amazing, i shall try it today


Aashwi

June 6, 2020

Amazing recipe ? learning tree is awesome


Nimisha Soni

June 6, 2020

Wow ! Amazing it is . I will surely try this out


Sandhya

June 6, 2020

Nice idea


Pranima Sharma

June 6, 2020

WOW!


Swati Parasar

June 6, 2020

Its easy and creative!! ?


Vivek Sharma

June 5, 2020

Great


Aarya.B

June 4, 2020

Awesome!!


Sangeetha

May 25, 2020

Cool ??????????


Sp singh

May 24, 2020

Nice


Merlin Rachel.v

May 23, 2020

Wonderful


Nandini

May 23, 2020

Cool


Anushka Singh

May 22, 2020

It’s really awesome


K Lalitha dixitha

May 18, 2020

That’s very good idea byjus . Thank you . We can make the our own colours without buying and we can

Give to our friends also ?????. Thank you byjus


Shobhitha.k.r

May 18, 2020

Woohoo!?
It’s amazing and wonderful ?
I’ll try this ??


Aasrita

May 18, 2020

Wow..?


Fianna Maria Mendez

May 17, 2020

Wow!! So cool. I am going to try this today itself.??


Pooja. V

May 17, 2020

Amazing


Pooja

May 17, 2020

Amazing


Trrishan Saha

May 16, 2020

Wow!


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