"Want Paint"

James's newest obsession is painting. He asks several times a day to paint (saying the word paint as if we lived in the South). Usually he wants my craft paints but normally I put him in his chair with a thing of watercolors. If I have time to supervise then he gets his finger paints. He doesn't like to spread the finger paints around and constantly asks for more. So I was pretty excited when I found this recipe for finger paints. I bought some containers to keep them in, but if I had some baby food jars then it would have been free. OK not really free, but I already had all the stuff to make it.

1 cup water

2 tablespoons cornstarch

Food coloring

Mix the water, cornstarch, and several drops of food coloring together in a saucepan. Heat and stir the mixture until it thicken, about 5 minutes (mine only took 1 or 2). Let it cool. Store in a covered container. Use the paint for finger painting or as an almost dripless easel paint. If the mixture becomes too think, add water until it reaches the desired consistency.

I only did half of the recipe for each color.