Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork

Benetta
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Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - paint the remaining squares with brown and orange and allow to dry Lately I have started using food colorings with the kids in my art class, as it is more cost effective and adds bolder colors to the end product. Combining food colorings with salt and glue offers a great technique for kids to explore their own creativity.

Total Time: 20 mniutes, drying time excluded

Yield: one raised salt artwork

Supplies:

A4 sized white cardstock
squeeze bottle of wood glue
table salt
food colorings: red, brown and yellow
Staedtler 12-color watercolor set
Pigma Micron 08 black pen
2 in high leaf stencil
pencil
ruler
paintbrush
three small plastic bowls
optional: standard scissors

Steps:

Draw a frame of squares around the cardstock. Note: I drew 1cm x 1cm squares, so I had to cut off a bit of cardstock that remained on two sides.

Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - draw a frame of squares around the piece of cardstock

Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - trim to size

Use the leaf stencil to trace leaves on to the cardstock.

Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - trace leaves using the stencil

Trace the pencil lines of the leaves with glue.

Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - trace the pencil lines with glue

Sprinkle salt over the glue, using enough salt so that the glue will be thoroughly covered, and shake off any excess salt. Tip: Work in a tray, as this step can become very messy!

Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - sprinkle the glue lines with enough salt to cover, shake off excess

Raised Salt Fall Kids' Artwork - salt removed

Add food colorings to the plastic bowls, each color to its own bowl. Add one or two drops of water to each food coloring - the amount of water used will have an effect of the depth of color you will see when painting. Dip the paint brush into a food coloring and gently touch the salt covered glue lines, allowing the colors to interflow.