Homemade: Salt Art

Beautiful coloured salt art ... the perfect homemade craft for your kids these school holidays!  You probably have what you need to create this in your house already!

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What do you need?

• salt
• chalk
• bottle
• funnel
• A4 paper (one for each colour used)

We used a plastic bottle but you could use a glass jar. Try something small to start with.  The funnel is not essential but helpful!  You may also like to use a tray to "contain" the salt.

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What do you need to do?

1. Fold the paper into half. Press down on the fold.

2. Pour some salt onto the paper.

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3. Choose a chalk colour.

4. Colour in the salt using the chalk.

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5. Place the funnel in the bottle. Use the fold in the paper to help pour the coloured salt into your bottle.

6. Repeat all the steps again for each colour you choose to create your salt art bottle.   

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This was a fun activity that produced a lovely result.  Mr 4 and Miss 7 worked together to do this activity (as I only had one bottle).  They both admire it now each time that walk by and are proud of what they have made together.  I gave Mr 4 smaller quantities of the salt than Miss 7.  They both did well to keep the salt on the kitchen bench top but you may want to consider using a tray during colouring if you are concerned about more salt ending up on the floor than in the bottle.

Here are some of the fine motor benefits of this activity:-
* bilateral coordination with folding and pressing the paper,
* hand strength with colouring in,
* eye/hand coordination with colouring in and pouring the salt, and
* grasp and manipulation of the chalk.

This was a really easy activity to set up and do together (appealing to both my school-age child and my preschool-age child). Of course you don't have to put your salt into a bottle.  You could pour it into a tray for rainbow sensory play... although I would recommend it for kids over 3 years of age as you wouldn't want your kids to consume this salt!

Have you tried salt art?

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