Salt Painting Craft for Kids
Salt painting craft for kids using glue and watercolor creates raised colorful designs - easy, sensory, and perfect year-round art fun.
Yield: 1 activity
Cost: $2
Instructions
- Place cardstock on a protected surface
- Draw your design using liquid school glue
- Make lines thick enough to hold salt
- Sprinkle table salt over the glue like glitter
- Gently shake off excess salt
- Curve the paper slightly and pour extra salt into the trash, or into a container to use on another painting
- Let the glue sit until tacky and thickened (not fully dry)
- Mix watercolor with plenty of water
- Load your brush with very wet color
- Lightly touch the salt line with the brush
- Watch the color travel across the raised salt paths
- Repeat with additional colors as desired
- Let the artwork dry completely
Notes
Always supervise crafts and activities. Small parts are choking hazards.