Salt and watercolor painting

Painting with Watercolors and Salt - Life with Moore Babies

This activity combines the wonder of science and art as children explore paint, salt, and water.

Make your own raised salt painting with a few simple supplies. Learn how to make salt painting with this fun STEAM project for kids.

Here is a fun and easy activity for the little ones! With some school glue, table salt and water colors, your kids can have so much fun making these salt paintings! My tutorial for this Kids Salt Painting activity is really easy to follow. Plus, it comes with a free printable, so you can get...

With this painting with salt experiment, learn how salt can be dissolved and used to make your own paint! This is a fun art and science activity!

salt painting tutorial

Today we have 2 easy art activities using colored salt. I love using salt for crafts and activities because it is inexpensive, taste safe, and causes some really cool things to happen. For example, our Colored Salt Painting took on several appearances while we were making it, until it finally dried into a colorful textured work of art. What happens is the water causes the salt to dissolve and spread across the paper. As the water evaporates, the salt crystallizes again on the paper.

This week I’ve been playing with another fun art technique – sprinkling salt on a wet watercolor painting. Like the last blog post – Watercolor & Oil Pastel Resist Painting – this technique encourages a more process-oriented focus in the art-making or art therapy. It’s also a lot of fun! It’s fascinating to watch the …