Kid’s Art – Raised Salt Painting

Painting can be fun when included with different element...not only sticking with water color and paper..the typical art....try something new...

For this activity we used:

• table salt
• white glue
• liquid with colour paint (you could also use water with food colouring added)
• paper of various colours (black works really well against vibrant colours)
• paintbrushes or pippetes
• A tray

STEP 1:

Lay your paper on the tray (we used a baking tray) and pour white glue onto your page. You could draw a picture or simply make patterns and shapes like we did. Go wild and cover as much of the page as possible for maximum effect.

STEP 2:

Pour table salt over the glue. Be generous. You don’t want to skimp on the salt here. Once you’ve covered all the glue with salt, lift up the page and shake off the excess salt. Shake it into the tray so that you can recycle the salt for your next picture.

STEP 3:

Now the REALLY fun part! Dip your paintbrush into the liquid watercolour paints and drop some colour onto the salt. You only need to drop a little colour in one spot. You are not actually brushing the colour over the page with the brush. Then sit back and watch the magic! The colour will spread and run along the lines of salt. (TIP: instead of liquid watercolours, use some water that has been coloured with food colouring. An eye dropper could be substituted for the paintbrush.)

The close up of the art

Credit to

one perfect day