I would have never thought to use acrylic paint to color sand!!!!! I’m so glad that worked! I have some white sand like that there and would like to have some other colors… now I know I can color it with my acrylic paints!!!! Yay!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!

We used to do sand art when I was a kid. Back in 60's and 70's. My Mom used 2 methods. 1st method was liquid food coloring. Used instead of paint. She also used water to thin it out to help it get more color less food coloring. Then she would thin it out on a baking sheet and heat it in the oven. Lowest setting about 2 hrs. Take it out see if it dried then grind it in her hands to get any lumps out and color again to make it darker or add a second color to change it. Like if she wanted a pinkish purple she would start with red then bake it dry. Then add blue bake it dry. Repeat til she got color she wanted. She would also do it with paint same way. She tried water colors but did not like the paleness it never gave her the deep color she wanted. Ink was to flammable and took more to dye sand. Acrylic paint she added couple tea spoons of water to thin it. Then repeat same method as food coloring. She used the plaid tolle paints to color them. We had a lot of sand in our back yard. She would dig it up and sift it through screen then bake it in oven to get out any bugs or impurities. She bought sand too. But when out and on military income back in the day she would process her own. She used the sand in yarn or string art. Where she would trace out a scene or person. Then use the sand and glue to color in. She also did layers in jars for terrariums then add layer of wax to seal sand in place, then add a potting soil for plants or make some with plastic flowers. She also used gallon jars from pickles and some smaller jars by filled them with colored sand and make lamps and bottles she made vases or candle holders from them. My child hood lamps she did had two big ones she created butterflies in them by layers of sand and using sticks or chop sticks to help shape them and glue on inside wall of glass she out lined her designs. She made me 5 matching lamps. Two big ones for my nightstands. 3 small ones for my dresser and desk. She used a fabric swatch from my bedding she made to get design for sand shape in lamp. She put fabric swatch or a picture inside and used sharpie to draw on our side of jar. Then followed out line with glue inside. Sand she colored to match bedding decor the rest she used matching wall paint for background color. So lavender walls, with pink, blue yellow and white butterflies and flowers. Took her weeks to make cause she was raising 4 kids 3 girls 1 boy all different ages who wanted everything from clothes to snacks. Mom sewed and worked part-time out of the home. Eldest sibling born in 54, second 56 then me 64 and youngest in 71. Top it off mom had stroke at age 37 slowed her down a bit and still managed to do everything while partially paralyzed for several years until she got fully healed up. My parents made no excuse for why things were not done. Lol Dad had 3 mild heart attacks on job and waited til quitting time to go to VA. My kids d thinks I am hard core but nothing like my parents. Apologize for rambling and book but thinking how hard they both worked to give us everything made me appreciate them even more. Today's society could not deal with the stuff my parents lived through the depression and 3 wars. WW2, Korea and Vietnam my Dad was in all 3 and married to Mom the last 2.

Pretty shocking results, thanks for the experiment. I suspect you are a really good singer in real life, even though you were joking singing. Have a great day.

Wow - it worked! If I were trying to colour sand, I think I would first reach for either alcohol ink or water based inks, just because I would be afraid of the bulk in acrylic paints. But hey! success! Thanks for experimenting - can't wait to see what you do with them!

For the darker sand use white paint first to bring it to white base and then after that drys do the colors. Nice work.

The res in the natural sand is vivid and true red. They are all lovely. That worked well on all of them.😮

I save my takeaway tubs to ;D also ice cream and yoghurt pots to mix resin in XD

Hi Steve, I have in fact colored sand with acrylic paint to put into resin. It worked wonderfully.

I use lets resin alcohol inks..takes just a couple drops. Or Liquitex acrylic inks. (Same with crushed glass.. no reason to buy every color). The pigment load is intense on these so it takes nearly nothing. Stir with a stick & it dries out in minutes. Great experiment with paints and the results are good 👍 Hope you’re having a nice start to 2023!! Thanks for sharing 🌹

Love this... Definitely going to do this!!!!🎉

I have been thinking for several weeks now, to test and color my sand 😃 So thanks to you, I see that coloring the sand went very well 🤩👍🌷

I like the red in the brown sand

I like both because of the shading you could do with them. Great idea, Steve.

AAAAAHHHHH SO PRETTY!!🥰🥰 Looking forward to seeing your new project and using this sand to do resin work too 😳😳. It seems like you're always doing something that amazes me.... The more I watch your videos the more I learn.... Thank You so much. Because of you my crafting is so much better. Stay safe, you do you, and stay crafty 👍👍🛎️🔔🦋🦋

This is great! And custom colours and likely less expensive than buying precoloured sand from a craft store! I love the intense colours made with the sandy coloured sand LOL thanks for sharing!

I love the sand colored sand colors lol

I’m impressed how well they turned. Colors are very nice❤

now you can add some ultra fine glitter to it as well and you get some magical looks with them.

Omg this is amazing. Alcohol ink works really well too as the alcohol evaporates leaving no moisture xx

I use Wilton's food dye. Comes out great.

Well that turned out amazingly well! I’m really surprised!

This is brilliant! It makes options endless and very affordable. Well done.

Wow this was a great idea to see how it would turn out. I am so excited how it did turn out. Can’t wait to see what you make with them. That should be the next project using the colored sand.

Steve you should seriously look into those glasses for colorblind people I hear they are amazing!!!

Awesome Steve. Looking forward to seeing what you use this for.

The blue is more teal in the brown sand. You can also use table salt in place of sand. And color it with food coloring

That's pretty cool! I've never seen that done before. I can't wait to see what you do with them!

This is such a great experiment! Love the colors! Thank you Steve 😊!!!

Depending on what you are using the colored sand for, you can use dry tempura paint powder to achieve the same effect. You only have to mix a little bit of the tempura powder with the sand to get a lot of color! And, here's another tip: you can mix tempura paint with table salt in lieu of white sand. Salt costs a lot less than white sand. For example, 5 lbs of the cheapest pure white sand I could find was $8.62 at Walmart. 4 lbs table salt (it didn't come in 5 lbs), was $1.98 at both Sam's club and Walmart. Sometimes you can get a pound of white sand at Dollar Tree, but that's hit or miss and still costs more than a pound of table salt. The table salt idea with tempura paint was something I came up with years ago when wanting to create the layered sand "sculptures" inside the plastic, shaped bottles with kids. It worked beautifully and saved a lot of money. But, again, it depends on what you plan to use the colored sand for.

Hi Steve, You are definitely my kind of crafty craft Crafter Experiments most definitely save you money 👍🙂 my personal Favourites were the White coloured sand Thanks so much Mate for sharing 👍❤️✨ Lin

The stuff you make is so amazing I love watching your videos it actually brings me out of this funk at mo Thank you

I like the two different shades of both colors.

I found some nice colored sand at the dollar store that works great! But I love the shades that the sand color sand shaded the paint you used! Can’t wait to see how you use it!

Looking forward to see what you do with the sand

There's sure a lot of different tips & ideas for coloring sand here in the comments. What a great idea to do.

A few years back I wanted to make "sand" for a resin project. I used salt and acrylic paint to make a very realistic looking sand!! It turned out very cool!!

I did a 'painting' in a series of test tubes, and coloured the sand by stirring it with chalk pastels,which worked very well too.

I bought coloured sand years ago it was cheaper then, and still have them, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Great idea, thank you for sharing.

Great idea. You’re a genius ❤❤❤

Food coloring works good too.. at least in the white sand. The brown sand, it'd be different

What a good idea Steve

Interesting Experiment 🤔👍

I did this in high school. I used yellow paint to make the sand look more vibrant and added PVA glue to my yellow sand so it would stick to my canvas. I made a beach scene

Wonderful idea! Thank you! Have you done any thing yet with your colored sand in resin? If so did it work out alright?

I bought purple sand at the dollar store. It was maybe a couple of lbs. But they didn't have any other colors at the time.

I've coloured sand with chalk and a little bit of mica to bring the vibrancy up, that worked pretty well but I wasn't making so much coloured sand as you have. If I had known you could get dry sand in bright colours using acrylic paint, I would have used that ages ago! I can't wait to see what you're going to make with all that sand. My guess would be an inlay on a table top, or on a tray! Whatever it will be, I'm betting it's gonna be amazing and beautiful! God bless you Steve and all those you love. Have a great week!

The red from the darker sand looks more true to red then the white colored one. I used liquid dye to color sand and that works well too. I'm going to try this way to

Try some sidewalk chalk or food coloring

You can grate some chalk or pastels to color sand.

I use normal poster paint and then dry in the oven

What about food coloring or Rit dye for clothes.

Would mica powder work to color thr sand? X

Forbidden snacks! 😂

Sand is pale brown, sometimes almost yellow-orange.

Do good coloring isn't a good thing to use them is it?

Bi-carb paint and glue

Wonder how alcohol ink or any ink really or food coloring. The possibility are endless 🙂

What if you mixed mica powder into the sand to color it or a powdered paint

I think the white sand makes nicer colours

Balls

Take a shot every time he says sand. Okay maybe don’t.