Today we tried to do some salt art water color painting for our afternoon craft. I was so excited about this because I had pre-made the kids glue and salt art earlier that day and I thought it would be a huge hit with the kids. The idea came from one of my mom’s friends and originated on this website:
https://www.agirlandagluegun.com/2020/03/salt-painting-for-kids.html
I made a dinosaur for Gavin and some flowers and a butterfly for Harper.
The glue took quite a while to dry, maybe because I used printer paper. I would probably use card stock if I did this again.
We had our watercolors ready and the kids were ready to go. They started painting, but the idea of letting the salt spread the water color was a little too difficult.
After about 10 minutes of painting Gavin was over it. He would rather just paint his own creation (which is what he and Harper did on Saturday morning). Harper lasted about 15 minutes and she was over it too. Maybe it was the picture I had created for them that weren’t exciting enough or maybe they would rather just do their own thing - not sure. What I do know is that unfortunately this is probably a project I wouldn’t do again (maybe if I do, I would let them create their own glue and salt design). For the amount of effort I put into it this though, the payoff was lacking.
I ended up helping/completing their paintings. They both left the table before the project was finished.
https://www.agirlandagluegun.com/2020/03/salt-painting-for-kids.html
I made a dinosaur for Gavin and some flowers and a butterfly for Harper.
The glue took quite a while to dry, maybe because I used printer paper. I would probably use card stock if I did this again.
We had our watercolors ready and the kids were ready to go. They started painting, but the idea of letting the salt spread the water color was a little too difficult.
After about 10 minutes of painting Gavin was over it. He would rather just paint his own creation (which is what he and Harper did on Saturday morning). Harper lasted about 15 minutes and she was over it too. Maybe it was the picture I had created for them that weren’t exciting enough or maybe they would rather just do their own thing - not sure. What I do know is that unfortunately this is probably a project I wouldn’t do again (maybe if I do, I would let them create their own glue and salt design). For the amount of effort I put into it this though, the payoff was lacking.
I ended up helping/completing their paintings. They both left the table before the project was finished.
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