How to Make Sparkly Salt Paint

Kids love sparkles and this sparkly salt paint it will dazzle your eyes. This is because salt is a crystal that acts like a mirror. Here is how to make sparkly salt paint for preschool students to use in a free painting project. Older students whose artistic skills are more highly developed will also enjoy the texture and the reflective qualities that this pain will add to their work.

Things You'll Need

• Dixie cups
• Assorted colors of tempera paint
• Large paint brushes
• Smocks
• Heavy duty (manila) painting paper
• Salt
• Newspapers to protect your surface while painting
• Wooden popsicle sticks or other stirrers

Instructions

1. Cover the painting table with newspaper to protect the surface from spills. Set out one cup per color of paint for each preschool student painter.

2. Pour table salt into each dixie cup. Fill each cup one quarter of the way full of the salt.

3. Pour the paint to fill the dixie cup the rest of the way. Pour only one color of paint into each cup. Use a wooden popsicle stick to stir each mixture until the salt is totally incorporated into the paint.

4. Give each preschool student painter another dixie cup filled with water so that the painter can clean the brush between colors. Allow the painters freedom to paint whatever they want, a picture or a design. Talk about what their picture is about. They should notice that the texture of the paint is a bit rougher than when they paint with regular and not sparkly salt paint.

5. Allow the paintings to dry flat on the table. After they are completely dry, hang them up in a display in an area where the light hits them. The effect will be lovely and the children will be very satisfied with their accomplishments.

Tips & Warnings

• The salt will make the paint a lot heavier than usual so make sure that you use heavy weight painting paper to do this project