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Heart Salt Painting
Valentine's Day STEAM Activity
Heart Salt Paintings are so beautiful and and gives kids a hands on opportunity to explore art and science concepts.
Through raised salt paintings, kids learn how salt is absorbent as they watch the colored water soak up and race along the salted glue lines!
Heart Salt Painting is also an excellent hands on way to explore color mixing.
Kids can see in real time how colors change when different color lines connect and mix together.
Continue reading below for full instructions and details!
heart salt painting
Materials Needed
materials
Cardstock Paper
Glue
Table Salt
Water color paints OR
Water colored with food coloring
heart salt painting
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heart salt painting
purpose
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Engages imagination
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Explores cause and effect
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Experiment with color mixing
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Allows child to express themselves
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Exploration of water and salt properties
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Hands on learning
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Experiment with water colors
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Allows for child to start and finish a project independently
heart salt painting
Step by Step Directions
gather materials
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Gather all the materials needed
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Lay materials out
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Place cardstock paper inside a tray or dish
create glue heart
Ask your child to create a heart outline with glue.
Then invite your child to draw glue lines inside the heart.
For younger children-trace a heart for them and ask them to cover the heart outline with glue.
You can also create the glue heart outline yourself
Pour salt
Pour table salt over the heart
Be sure to completely cover the glue with salt
Pour off the excess salt
Save the salt for other projects
add watercolors
Fill pipette with colored water and squeeze onto salted heart OR
Dip paint brush in water colors and gently tap the salted heart with the paintbrush
Watch as the color spreads!
Continue until the heart is fully covered
let dry and display
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Lay painting flat and let the raised salt painting dry.
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This will take a long time-likely a full day.
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Once fully dry-proudly display!
