How to Make Sparkly Salt Paint Recipe

How to make it

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• 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.
• Pour table salt into each dixie cup.
• Fill each cup one quarter of the way full of the salt.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
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• By Lesley Barker
• eHow Contributing Writer