One of my daughter’s little friends sent her a beautiful picture made with coloured salt. Inspired by the lovely surprise in the post, we decided to give it a go too. So easy, cheap and fun. Here’s what we did:
Firstly, colouring the salt. I bought a decent sized bag of no-name salt (for the grand sum of about 99c I think). We poured some salt into a bowl, added a few drops of food colouring and stirred until the salt was evenly coloured. Then we spread it out on a plate and nuked it for a minute or two in the microwave. We put the salt aside to cool for a few minutes before transferring it to a craft container, and we repeated the process to make three different coloured batches.
On to creating! This was an activity we mostly did together. I drew simple outline shapes (butterflies, flowers, fish, etc) on paper with a dark marker. We filled in sections of the picture with glue, then sprinkled on spoonfuls of salt. We used one colour at a time and tipped the excess salt back into its container.
As my daughter got the hang of it she was able to do more of this craft on her own. Her favourite part of the activity was seeing where the salt had stuck to the glue as we tipped off the excess. We really enjoyed this activity together – and there wasn’t that much mess to clean up!
Have you tried this activity before? Any tips to share…?
Oh what fun!
This also works with sand if you don’t want to use food for art/play – you can colour it with food colour or crushed chalk.
Kate is the crushed chalk as effective…???
Hi
We did a similar activity this week only we used macaroni and food dye.
I pulled a couple of pages out of a colouring in book Zoe spread it with pva glue and stuck the macaroni on a couple at a time. This activity is great as it takes a lot longer than just colouring in. Fun too.
Next week I think the craft cups will be filled with colourful salt.
Great activity. I’ve never tried this one with my kids but I know they’ll love it! I’ll let you know how I go!
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And we did it! Perfect activity. I’m sure the kids felt like they were cooking then making! Great activity for outdoors though. My feet have squelched through quite a bit of salt! http://blog.familyvalue.com.au/?p=181
Thanks! This sounds like a fun, easy activity to do with my six year old