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Chocolate Puffy Paint Recipe

August 4, 2015 by Anna Ranson

How to make chocolate scented, no-cook puffy paint recipe for summer arty fun! It smells wonderful and is so easy to make with these three simple ingredients. It’s a feast for the senses!

We first made this super-quick and easy, puffy paint recipe while we were enjoying some Christmas crafts last year. We made it white and sparkly to represent snow, and then created a peppermint scented puffy paint recipe too! Just recently we made some fresh and zingy lemon puffy paint and then followed it up immediately with this chocolate puffy paint recipe too.

Chocolate puffy paint recipe for sensory art

Chocolate puffy paint recipe:

2 cups shaving cream

1 cup white glue (PVA/ school glue)

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

Mix the glue and shaving cream together in a clean bowl, folding the shaving cream into the glue a little like folding egg whites. Too much mixing makes the shaving cream lose air and reduces the overall puffiness of the paint.

Then sprinkle over the cocoa powder and mix it through until it is combined.

The paint is now ready to use!

Chocolate puffy paint recipe

Take a spoon and use that to dollop the paint onto the paper or card, then spread it with a paintbrush as usual. The thicker the paint is applied, the more puffily it will dry.

Chocolate puffy paint

Once your creations are complete, simply leave them to dry completely for a few hours or, even better, overnight. The paint will dry thick and puffy and looks really effective! Use it to represent ice cream, cakes and cookies, or to create a volcano or earth in some nature pictures.

Chocolate puffy paint art recipe

Experiment with different scents and colours of your own to create fabulous, abstract art.

Check back to see one more scented puffy paint recipe that we made on the same day, and what we turned them all into!

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Filed Under: Age, Art, Art, Art and Craft, Create, Creativity, Finger-Painting, Foam, How To, Learn, Make, Messy Play, Paint, Play, Play Recipes, Preschooler, Puffy Paint, Recipes, Scented Play, School Age, Sensory, Shaving Cream, Summer, Toddler

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Comments

  1. Kate - An Everyday Story says

    August 14, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    I am so desperate for spring!! It feels like an eternity since we have been able to spend all day outside getting deliciously messy. I’m filing away your puff paint recipes for when things warm up…. I really like the sound of your lemon one too 🙂

    • Anna Ranson says

      August 15, 2015 at 10:17 am

      Thank you Kate! We will be pining for Spring when you are enjoying yours 🙂

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