1. White latex is most suitable for bean painting, and it is very convenient to buy and use. You can buy it in art shops and building materials markets. The paper size of bean paste depends on personal choice, A4 paper is the most commonly used.

2. The tool for making bean paste is to stick all kinds of beans on paper to form various shapes of handicrafts. You need to prepare high-strength glue, scissors, knives, beans of various colors, shapes and sizes, white paper and colored paper, and all kinds of beans.

3. Materials used in the bean paste painting: soybeans, mung beans, red beans, coix seed, black beans and other beans. According to the bean painting you want to make; Colored cardboard, glue (preferably white glue, which makes it easier to fix beans), tweezers (which are used to fiddle with beans and prevent glue from sticking to hands).

The "bean paste painting" evolved from the "melon seed doll" posted on the door frame during the Spring Festival in Wuqi. Its main materials are crops such as beans and millet. Paste content mainly shows folk customs, folk customs, people, animals and so on. Because of its unique materials, rough lines and rich content, it has formed a distinctive folk art style.

1996, Wuqi County Cultural Center actively implemented the strategic task that each county must have its own "one art and one product" issued by Yan 'an Cultural Bureau. After excavation, arrangement and creation, Wuqi bean paste painting gradually took shape, and held Wuqi bean paste painting exhibition and seminar in Yan 'an in 1999. Guangzhou TV Station, Shaanxi Daily, Yan 'an Daily and other news media have reported one after another, which is known as "northern Shaanxi oil painting".