How to Salt Paint

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Materials needed:

White Glue

Table Salt

Watercolour paints

Card – Regular paper is too light

Directions to Make Salt Painting:

1. Use white glue to draw a design or picture onto a piece of card.  I like to cut small pieces that fit onto a paper plate.

2. Once you are finished with your glue drawing, liberally sprinkle salt onto the glue.

3. Gently shake off onto the paper plate and set the plate aside.

4. Place your salt covered card stock onto a flat surface covered with newspaper or wax paper.

5. Use watercolour paints to gently paint onto the salt.

6. You won’t need a lot of water, but the more pigment color you have on your brush the better. Once finished, set aside to dry completely.

 

 

How to make a homemade Kaleidoscope

Materials for Homemade Kaleidoscope

Empty toilet paper roll

Mirrored Sheets

Scissors

Tape

White cardstock

Bendy straw

Markers, stickers, or other materials for decorating your spinning circle

Optional: Paint for decorating your cardboard tube

 

Directions for Homemade Kaleidoscope

1. If you are planning on painting your cardboard tube, do that first. Set it aside to dry.

2. Next, you’ll need to cut your mirrored sheets into three equal strips. You’ll want the size to be just right so the finished kaleidoscope insert fits snuggly in your cardboard tube and won’t fall out. Cut your mirrored sheets into strips that measured 9.7cm x 3.5 cm.

 3. Line up your mirrored strips, leave a tiny space between each one. (Place the shiniest/least scratched sides face down.) Tape them together over the spaces. 

 

  

 4. Fold the taped strips into a triangular prism and tape along the top to hold in place.

 5. This should fit snuggly inside your cardboard tube.

 

  

6. Cut off the bendy end of a flexible straw. 

7. Tape it along the top of your tube with the flexible part of the straw hanging over the edge.

8. Cut out 3 circles from cardstock. Ours measured 3.75 inches in diameter

9. Poke a hole in the centre of your circle. (I used a sharp pencil.) 

 

10. Decorate the circle using markers, stickers, crayons etc. Try out different designs, shapes, and letters!

 

11. Place the circle onto your straw with the design facing the kaleidoscope. You want the hole to fit over the flexible portion of the straw so it will turn easily. 

 

12. Look into your kaleidoscope and explore all the reflections created by your design!

 

 

Tips

If you have trouble getting your triangular prism to fit snuggly into your cardboard tube, it will work on its own. Simply tape the straw directly on top of the prism rather than using a tube.

Make as many cardstock circles as you want and try them all out!