Thursday 23 August 2012

Sensory salt art

One holiday as a child we went to the Isle of Wight, I cant remember much of the holiday, but I do remember making some fab sand art form the naturally coloured sand from the cliffs there. Check out some examples of what I mean here. After a discussion with my lovely friend N, I thought making some sand art would be a great way to use up some of the little baby food jars we have left over from feeding 'The Frog'. We didn't have any coloured sand but after being inspired by The Imagination Tree we decided to make some coloured salt instead.


To make the sand coloured we used the same technique we use to dye rice and pasta for play. Add food colouring and a bit of alcohol gel (to help dry it out) in a zip lock bag and shake/ squidge it around. Remember that because its salt you need to store any left over in a air tight container.


Filling the jar



Plenty of salt left over for some sensory mark making fun.


For some coloured sand fun why not check out the giant rainbow sand pit currently in on the South Bank in London. Yesterday we met up with Imagination Tree, Rainy Day Mum and Taming The Goblin for some colourful sand play. It was great fun.

Language Focus: colours, in, mix, pour, tip

11 comments:

  1. That looks beautiful. We haven't ever tried making colored salt. I guess I need to put it on the list of things to do.

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    1. Its really easy to do Bethany, I'd def recommend it as something to do.

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  2. I am so jealous that you all got together. These salts look wonderful.

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    1. It was fun (we had to go home early which was a shame but fingers crossed we'll be able to do it again soon)

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  3. oh wow, the jars look great. i bought the eals to do this, but haven't gotton aroung to it yet. x

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    1. Thanks, let us know when you do I'd love to see how yours turn out :-)

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  4. Brilliant - I love it and does remind me of a certain sand pit - although our end was a little duler I think.

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    1. It hasn't had all our kids mixing it up (I'm sure soon our salt 'left overs' will soon be 'preschool brown' or what ever the salt equivalent is!)

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  5. That's very cool, and nice and cheap. They charge a fortune at our local zoo to make these things.

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  6. I love this post! I remember the "sand art" from many moons ago. Great to use salt!

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  7. I love these! Thanks for linking to Science Sparks x

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