I have an odd question. I've been working on a painting for a christmas present and I really want to have the footprints of my green-cheeked conure across them. I was going to paint the footprints in but I thought it would be more personal if they were real. I was reading a book about a lady who painted on cats with a food based dye that was completely non-toxic. (Really cool book actually called "Why Paint Cats.") I was curious if anyone knew a recipe for a non-toxic paint/dye? Any help would be much appreciated.

-Melanie

Your best bet would be to not use a dye or paint at all. Rather try grape juice, or cranberry juice, or even better, crush up some raspberries and use that, or blackberries. Then you bird can eat them afterwords.

I like the idea of the little track on your present.......cool!

As for paint maybe Karen will have an idea....

Gary

We had a thread a while back about this topic. I think she ended up using Koolaid. Children's paint was mentioned as an option also.

LINK: Ollie wants to paint a picture (And she did! pg3)