Last Updated on December 17, 2018 by Rachel Cooper
Inside: This preschool painting activity is like science at the art table! See what happens as the salt is sprinkled on the glue, and then paint is dropped on top. So much fun!
I love to strengthen fine motor skills at the art table, so this is why salt and watercolor painting is one of my favorites for our preschoolers.
I’ve talked about pipettes before, such as with our pine cone art and our colored waterfall art.
What I love about this particular activity is that the salt allows the colors to travel.
When you add different colors, you can see them mix in the salt.
Science, fine motor, AND art!
Preschool Painting Activity with Salt, Glue and Watercolors
What we used:
The process:
Squeeze glue onto paper. We talked about how the glue was “dancing”.
You can also shake the salt. This is a fun activity by itself!
Applying the watercolors:
Use the pipettes to transfer the liquid watercolors on top of the salt.
There are always those that want to use 2 pipettes at a time, too!
As the salt absorbs the paint, and they both mix with the glue, an interesting texture appears.
Some of the preschoolers poked and pulled at the mixture, finding the feeling fascinating.
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I´m a kindergarden teacher in Portugal. So beautiful this salt painting! Thanks for sharing…I´ll try with my children. See our blog Pré Azul http://preazul.blogspot.com/
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I adore this idea! Can’t wait to try it with M and M!
This looks like so much fun! I don’t think we’ve done this before. Thanks for sharing!
Love it! Thanks for sharing on It’s Playtime.
Nice. We did something similar once with colored salt, but yours look so much more “finished”
LOVE this activity… my little one would love this.. thanks so much for sharing this with us on Sharing Saturday. hope that you have a great week. Looking forward to seeing more of your posts.
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For the past 17 years I have enjoyed the 2 yr old class at MDO. They are absolutely delightful!! It’s pure joy the two days a week I get to be with them. Thank you for sharing your blog. I am not there yet Maybe someday I will have a blog. Love this idea
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Love this website and all the ideas! We tried this activity and it came out great – thank you!
Love this idea for my 2’s class! I just found you a couple weeks ago. We tried the golf ball painting and both of my classes loved it! Our school year ended this week, so now I am going to pouring over all your older posts and be ready for lots of fun fun fun in September! Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas. Amazing stuff, teacher! 🙂 Laura from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton