Salt Glue and Paint Toddler Project

Yet another Pinterest inspiration. The original idea came from here at Hands On As We Grow. Love her icy paint idea. So we had to try our own version.

Materials you will need:

-- Tray (to catch the salt and possible paint spills)
-- Glue
-- Construction paper or sturdy paper - any color
-- Paints, we used professional grade water colors and drenched in water. I would recommend craft acrylics watered down for an even deeper color.
-- Salt, we used koscher salt for a more gritty feel, but regular table salt will do
-- Paint brush or eye/ water dropper

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1. Glue away on your sheet. Any design or pattern will do. Let you child experiment - during this step they might make thin lines or large globs. Once you get thru to step 4 they can see the various effects of salt absorbtion and color mixing, etc.

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2. Cover you glue with salt. Be generous. We let our salt sit for at least 15 minutes to absorb into the glue. So we went and played freeze dance while the excrutiating time passed.

covering the glue in lots and lots of salt, areyousureaboutthatblog

3. Pour off the excess salt (we saved it into another container for a sure to be future project). We used water colors an eye dropper to pick up the water and drop it on the salt. A paintbrush will work just as well. We drenched the salt in the paint. This picture doesn't do justice to the cool way the color spread thru the salt and the depth of color.

start applying drops of color to the glued on salt, areyousureaboutthatblog

4. We let our masterpiece dry for 3 days on the tray. Most of the salt stayed glued on to the paper even tho we used alot of color dropped on. I think the color would have been much richer if we used my acrylic craft paints.



the happy artist with his new color salt work of art! areyousureaboutthatblog



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Originally published on February 28, 2013