Watercolor, Salt, and Glue Painting

 Jake & I did some salt painting today with glue, salt, and paint.  This can be a fun way to work on fine motor skills, play with color blending, and say "YES" to a mess!  :)

To start with, we drizzled glue on paper.  I started with regular printer paper & it seemed fine for about 20 minutes, but then the water from the paint & the glue made it kind of fragile.  We moved on to paint-grade paper & that seemed a little more durable. 

I drizzled some designs and let Jake drizzle others.

 

Um, too much, Jake.

Next, we sprinkled Kosher salt on the glue.  This gives the paint something to hold on to.  He started out being a little careful.

 It kind of stuck to his hands a little.

It was fun to watch it snow on the page.

 

 It was even more fun to dump, of course.

 After dumping the salt on the glue, I shook the salt around the page like glitter & tossed the excess.  Next, I put some watercolors in an ice cube tray and let Jake use a pipette dropper to drop paint on the salt.  He started out dropping on the salt, but then dropped on the paper, the counter, the water bowl, and even other paint trays.  Excessive paint mixing resulted in lots of grayish brown on the final result, but we had fun!

Um, that is only for dropping paint on the paper.  Do not get any other ideas, mister.

 

 

The colors dried pretty muted, but by the end it was a muddy gray anyway. It was nice to have a pic to hang on our new art wall in the playroom.  :)