Comments on: Gettin’ Crafty in the Kitchen: Home Made Finger Paint

By: Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:36:20 +0000

Thanks for the finger paint recipe! Is there a natural vegan paint that can be painted on my son’s superhero cloth cape?

By: Ulrike

Ulrike — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:21:41 +0000

You can always dye protein fibres (wool, silk, soy silk) with food colouring, when done in an acid environment (and the food colouring is sugar free). Search for Kool Aid dyeing on the web, I think knitty has something on it, too. And you can use plant dyes for colouring food, like beet root, elder berries etc. India Flint has some very good examples in her book Eco Colour

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:49:59 +0000

Oh no! Thanks so much for commenting, Oraxia! I was thinking of ordering some of the Seelect coloring for baking, but maybe I’ll just stick to cupcakes with uncolored frosting.

By: Oraxia

Oraxia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:33 +0000

Having tried using the Seelect food coloring before, they will probably be useful for dyeing things like Easter Eggs and finger paints (and maybe yarn/fabric), they are a bit of a flop in terms of a food coloring.

I bought them to color frosting for vegan cupcakes I was making, and the frosting became watery from too much of the coloring before it actually got to a color that would not be described as “light pastel.” The ‘blue’ and yellow mixed to make brown rather than green, and the resulting mix tasted and smelled like… blueberries and turmeric. Not vanilla, as it had been before adding the coloring. I ended up having to make a new batch of frosting and just frosted the cupcakes white, because the frosting I had attempted to color was not usable. At all