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By: se7en

se7en — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:53:29 +0000

Thanks for the long comment – any comment is a good comment in the life of a blogger!!! Sorry about your cookies… Baking and deadlines always tends to be hazardous. Your paint sounds great and I love the old x-ray idea.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:46:18 +0000

Hi, me again! I tried the biscuits but in the end we had to make something else because they weren’t working out too well. The dough was very crumbly even though I added more butter and therefore the biscuits were hard to manage with a hole in the middle. My husband quite liked them though and suggested that we don’t make a hole but just pop the sweet on top which I did and it does also have quite a nice effect. Anyway, we abandoned ship on that one as it was getting too frustrating and time was ticking!! We made really easy chocolate squares with marie biscuits and icing sugar etc. We’ll be experimenting with the others though as they were a hit with Dad:-)
About the finger paint, the way I make it for school is just with cornflour, water and paint. Mix a paste with cold water and cornflour, boil the kettle and just as it starts to boil pour slowly stirring constantly and consistently until it thickens. If you’ve never done it this way before, give it a try because it’s much less of a task than gelatine and double boilers etc. It gives a really nice consistency which while still warm is wonderful to manipulate. You can use old x-rays sheets to work on and then print your picture or pattern or whatever. Also nice for mixing colours, make up 3 lots – red, yellow, blue and experiment with making secondary and tertiary colours on the x-ray sheets.
(sorry, that was a long comment!)