Picnic Paints

Summer is a great time to pack a picnic, take the kids outside, and find a place where everyone can play and relax together.  So why not use this time to do a little bit of painting?  Using some items from your picnic, kids will love the chance to paint with ketchup, mustard and other foods. 

Here are a few items you and your kids will need to create your own food painting masterpiece:

Supplies

• Condiments, such as ketchup and mustard, provide great color and work best as a paint substitute. 
• Paint brushes, paper or fabric (Muslin works best!),
• water
• watercolor paper 

Do this

Using the condiments, paint fantastic pictures on the muslin or paper!

Step it up

Instead of mustard and ketchup, trya variety of other items to see what kind of results you get. Other items worth trying include frozen berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries work best).  For staining fabric, try black tea (any variety) and beets.