Water based paints or acrylic craft paints are the best to use on Styrofoam. Water based paints, specifically poster paints, work well with younger kids as they can get a really good and thick coverage of paint on the polystyrene shape.
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styrofoam can be painted with any craft paint (make sure it lists that it is suitable for sytrofoam) or specific spray paints that are also made for use on styrofoam. If you don't want to go searching for hard-to-find paints, you cover the styrofoam with plaster of Paris or mod pod first and then simply spray the object with any spraypaint color you desire.
No- regular spray paint will melt it
Acrylic spray paint will work on it, though. I used some on styrofoam recently and it worked great. (:
You have to use design center spray paint
yes it is possible to spray paint a styrofoam ball. before spray painting a styrofoam ball, you must take a wet papertowel and smoothen out the styrofoam ball with it.
Yes! I have used both combinations of wall paint in poster paint & vice versa..I used one to tint the other in each instance & noticed that it affected the adhesion as well as the ability to block stains if adding poster paint to wall (white-ish) paint..by adding wall paint to poster paint it made poster paint stick better, flow from brush better, & require fewer coats..all of this while using a high quality acrylic wall paint..
Poster paint is water-based (and made to be used on paper or card) and does not stick very well on plastic, which is non-absorbent.
If on poster paper, it's usually dry within an hour.