Fun Stuff: Make Your Own Watercolor Paint

Over the past few months, the marker monster has chowed down on tons of dried-up makers. He ate so many markers that he was literally full! There are so many great ways to recycle dried-up markers. One thing that you can do with your markers is create your own watercolor paint!

Materials: to make your own watercolor paint you will need dried-up markers (separated into colors), a cup of water, and pliers.
1. First, using pliers, take the plug off of the bottom of the marker.
2. Using the pliers, take the foamy marker middle out from inside of the marker.
3. Put the foamy middle into a cup.
4. Add a few marker middles (of the same color) into the cup.
5. Add water and fill the cup a little over half way.
6. Let it sit. The water will soak into the marker, while will end up changing the color of the water. The longer you let the marker middles sit in the water, the more intense the watercolor paint will be.

So far, we have created red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple watercolor paints! We cannot wait to use them in some of our upcoming projects!

Below are some pictures of the watercolor making process!!

Maybe we'll be using these homemade watercolors in an upcoming project!