{"id":1122,"date":"2010-10-02T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2010-10-02T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:33:00","slug":"colored-salt-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/colored-salt-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Colored Salt Paintings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4105\/4998065900_46a289945b_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/4997460213_99a5623220_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/4998066128_0463684a17_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4087\/4997460299_3e8a715136_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Here&#8217;s a simple, fun and nearly free craft that&#8217;s really fun for kiddos of all ages. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>Colored Salt Paintings!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">You need:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Sturdy cardboard (cut up cereal boxes and cardboard boxes are ideal)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Salt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Small bowls<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Food coloring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Glue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Paintbrushes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pen or pencil (optional)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Small spoons or scoops (baby spoons or souvenir spoons work well)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Directions:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">In the small bowls, pour several spoonfuls of salt and add a few drops of food coloring to each.\u00a0 Stir well and add more to get desired color.\u00a0 We used paste food coloring, which is very intense and requires very little.\u00a0 If your salt ends up too wet from the coloring, you can microwave it very briefly or put it in a hot oven for a few minutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Meanwhile, give the kids each a piece of cardboard (blank side up, or vice versa if they want to do the art over a pattern) and ask them to draw a simple design on it.\u00a0 It should be big, without tiny areas.\u00a0 Flowers, fish, designs and patterns work well.\u00a0 Little ones can skip this step.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Have the kids paint sections of their designs with the glue, and then scoop the colored salt onto the sections.\u00a0 They can then pour the extra salt back into the bowl.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">They can then paint the next section with glue and sprinkle a new color, repeating until the picture is finished.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Allow to dry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Our kids all loved doing these, from 3 year-old Alex to 12 year-old Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Be sure to take pictures, as they can be a bit delicate!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4126\/4997460007_805cfe04eb_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4125\/4998066032_745a96422d_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Saturday!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a simple, fun and nearly free craft that&#8217;s really fun for kiddos of all ages. Colored Salt Paintings! You need: Sturdy cardboard (cut up cereal boxes and cardboard boxes are ideal) Salt Small bowls Food coloring Glue Paintbrushes Pen or pencil (optional) Small spoons or scoops (baby spoons or souvenir spoons work well) Directions:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[27,32,69,84,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}