Glitter isn't a supply I consumption often for my ain crafts because it is so messy, and I unquestionably don't get it out for crafting with my son! Only I wanted to do a glitter type activity with him, and had an aha moment. What if I could dye salt to make a screen out of faux glitter? I doubt I'm the initial to remember this, but I felt up pretty pleased myself anyway! Kieran and I got to work and made some salt "glint" shapes for a garland.

Crafting With Kids: Salt "Glitter" Shape Garland

This activity includes sol many fun things for kids: colors, shapes, texture, cutting, threading, and lots of vocabulary words too, as you discuss each step of the serve.

Make a Salt Glitter Shape Garland

Crafting With Kids: Salinity "Gleam" Shape Wreath

Supplies for Salt "Glitter" Shape Garland:

  • Fine or coarse table salt
  • Food colors
  • Scissors
  • Colored construction paper or cardstock
  • Craft gum
  • Paint brushes
  • Jars or Bowls
  • An old shoe package
  • String
  • Hole punch

Salt Glitter Shape Garland Supplies

Part 1

The first step is to make your multicolour salt. We made five colours: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

Salt Glitter Shape Garland Steps

1. Pour some table salt out into each jar

2 & 3. Add a few drops of solid food color and stir until all the salt is coloured

4. Sit back and admire your handy work.

We didn't have green coloring, then we mixed blue and yellow!

Part 2

Now meter for some thinning.

Salt Glitter Shape Garland Cutting

Draw many dolabrate shapes on the colored cardstock and cut them out. We did triangles, circles, stars, squares and rectangles. I used a stadium and coffee bean mug to draw the circles.

Part 3

Fourth dimension to glue and glitter!

Salt Glitter Shape Garland Painting

1. Mix craft glue with some water so that it is thin enough to spread, but not runny

2. Brush glue onto shapes

3. & 4. Scatter colored salinity onto mucilage, using the cover of the shoe box as a lid.

Part 4.

Here's another choice for covering the shapes with glitter!

Salt Glitter Shape Garland Shaking

1. Paint the shapes with glue and place in the package

2. Dump gleam into box

3. & 4. Shroud the box and shake, tremble shake!!!

I asked Kieran which method acting he favored and he said "Quivering!" So we finished all the other shapes this way. It was definitely faster than sparge!

Salt Glitter Shape Garland Glitter

We also definite to taste an experiment and employ all the colors of glitter at once along extraordinary white shapes!

3. Place shapes in box, and add glitter as shown

4. The result was a rainbow moon!

Start 5

Formerly every the shapes are ironic, tap dispatch the extra tasty. If you have a spray fixative, you can nebulise them to ascertain wholly the salinity corset put. Now we rear end make the garland! We did this part the next day, all that trembling was exhausting!

Salt Glitter Shape Garland

1. Punch holes in your shapes

2 & 3.  Thread them onto string, tying them as you go to secure them.

4. Atomic number 73 da!

I think he likes it!

Finished Salt Glitter Shape Garland

We hung information technology up in his graphics space to display

Finished Salt Glitter Shape Garland

He was extremely fortunate with his universe, and couldn't wait to present his Papa. This is a deceptively simple activity, but unmatched that has a administer of bang for the buck! Have fun crafting with kids!