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The hypothesis of which recipe would work the best was
proven to be wrong. Finger paint #1 worked the best.
This retained it's color the best, kept well, and felt the most
like store bought finger paint. I believe that the corn starch did not helped retain the color. I believe this because finger paint #1 did not retain it's color well and it contained only water and corn starch. While both finger paint #2 and #3 did retain their color well. I believe that recipe #2 did not work well because the starch needed something else to hold it with the water. The two did not combined well. Recipe #3 probably did not work well because of the laundry starch not thickening. I don't know why it didn't but I may have been the wrong type of laundry starch. I believe that this was not a very good recipe to begin with. I didn't like the idea of having soap of it because I had a feeling that it would get foamy lie it did. Recipe #1 worked well because it was mixed with both corn starch and gelatin which created a nice thickness and gelatin helps retain the color. I believe a way to improve the finger paint recipes is to make one that contained a smaller amount of corn starch than in recipe #1 and #2 and a higher amount of gelatin than in recipe #2 and #3. I think this would help it smooth over the paper better and retain it's color. |
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