Showing posts with label salt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salt. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Sand fun

Today looks gloomy outside, so we decided to turn the kitchen into some art fun! We sort of did 3 things today, and one will last the whole day!

First thing this morning, I made some coloured salt. I put some salt in small bowls and each bowl also had a piece of chalk. I "mixed" around the bowl of salt, using the chalk. In a few seconds we had coloured salt. You can also put the chalk in a bag with the salt and move it all around.

The first thing we did with the salt was salt pictures. (I told the kids it was coloured sand!)

I got some glue, paper and the salt.

They drizzled the glue all over their papers- older kids might make a design.


And then we dropped the sand all over the paper. Once it dries it will be a rainbow of colours on the paper!



With the left over sand, we put them into baby food jars, for a nice decoration!

After that was done, we pulled out the long paper roll. I taped it to the floor and had each child lay down on the paper. I traced around them, and then they went to work decorating their bodies. They have gone back and forth a few times now, playing, colouring, playing, colouring! They will be on the floor in the kitchen for most of the day!