Painting with Salt and Glue

Does your child love to paint?

This is one easy, inexpensive and super cool painting technique the children will be engrossed doing.

The materials you need are:

• White glue
• Liquid watercolor or food colour
• Salt
• Medicine dropper/eye dropper or paintbrush
• Small cups for water colours
• Squeezable bottle
• Tray or baking pan
• Card stock or thin cardboard paper

All you need to do:

1. Prepare the paint by putting them in small cups.

 




 

2. Make a pattern on your card stock or let your children draw with the glue. If glue bottles are hard to squeeze, try putting glue in squeezable bottles.

 



 

3. Let your children pour salt on the paper. You may want to put your paper on a tray or baking pan first.

 



 

4. Shake off excess salt.
5. Ask your children to paint on the salt and glue only using a dropper or a paint brush.

 


 



 

You can have something like this soon as the glue and paint dries

I was not able to take a picture of my children’s work but I looks similar from this one I saw with Happy Hooligans website.

I like that this art is more of a free art and it allows the children to be more creative.

Remember, art is a creative process that teaches children a lot about different things.

For this activity, the children learned about absorption, colour recognition and colour blending.

The use of droppers was a good exercise for the children’s fine motor skill development.

The children’s eye-hand coordination and concentration skills were utilised in pouring salt and applying colour.

It also taught them to be patient in putting the paint on top of the salt and glue.

You can also make this as a literacy activity by writing the names of the children with glue and letting the children trace it with paint.