Drawing with salt - favourite hobby children at all times for all ages, from toddlers and older. Glue, salt and watercolor are all you need for this simple job.

Salt painting is awesome. Really AWESOME!

We have done this many times over the past years, starting from the moment when Maria and her friends in the toddler drawing group were still in diapers. And now at 11 years old she still enjoys it (as I do, even though I'm 39!).

If you haven't tried drawing salt yet, this is your chance! I will first share a video where you can see the whole process, then I will give you a step-by-step explanation for this fun activity.

Materials (edit):

• Cardstock (thick paper) (any sturdy surface will do. We used cardstock, whiteboard, cardboard, watercolor paper, paper plates and styrofoam
• PVA glue
• Table salt
• Liquid watercolor (perfect. If you don't have it, you can dilute food additives)
• Paint brushes or eyedropper

How to paint with salt?

1) Extrude the picture with glue or cardstock design.

2) Sprinkle it with salt until all the glue is hidden. Shake the surface lightly so that excess salt slides off.

3) Dip the brush into liquid paint, then gently touch down to the glue lines covered with salt. Watch the paint “magically” spreading in different directions!

You can use a pipette if you want. But it seems to me that in this way a lot of paint will be shed at one time. Yet many people like this method.

4) Let the picture dry thoroughly... It may take a day or two.

Once you're done, show it off!

Making pictures with salt is our favorite pastime in our home (along with the marbling technique, volumetric drawing Microwave Puffy paint and paint splatter) and all the kids I know.

You can use this technique and write names or other words ...

Draw a rainbow or valentine ...

... and also depict a landscape, squiggles and scribbles, a face and a lot more!

What about you? Have you already tried to make a picture using this technique with your children?

Painting with watercolors and salt and glue. Master class with step by step photos

Master class for educators. Theme:"Glue, Salt and Watercolor".

Target: Acquaintance with new technology, showing several options for its application.
Materials: colored paper"Rainbow", white paper "Snegurochka", scissors, PVA glue, glue stick "Erich Krause", watercolor paints, brush "Pony" or bristle No. 3, a container with water for washing the brush.

Description:

On the Internet, there are photographs in which children sprinkle a linear drawing with PVA glue and then paint with watercolors. Funny shaggy "strings" on a black or white background look interesting. Developing this idea, we tried to combine applique and drawing, assuming that the ready-made contours of objects will help the child better play out the space of the sheet, make the work clearer, "exhibition" or "gift". Depending on the age of the pupils, the first stage (cutting out blanks) can be carried out by a teacher or a child. Therefore, it can be used to work with children from four to seven years old (from the middle to the preparatory group for school).
Consider three options: "Bouquet", "Fish", "Butterfly".
"Bouquet"
As a basis (background of the image) we take a sheet of colored paper "Rainbow" of a warm or cold, not too saturated, muted shade. It can be pink, pale orange, blue, light purple, or light green. On a bright, juicy background of "color" paper, the picture can "get lost". Cut white A4 paper (landscape sheet) into four parts.

We use one "quarter". Fold it in half and cut out the outline of the vase. One sheet can produce four different options. You can pre-roll the sheet and draw a contour for the children, or offer to create your own version of the vase (for older preschoolers).

We circle on a stencil and cut out three small circles for the middle of the flowers (or distribute ready-made circles). We lay out the composition (the sheet lies vertically) and glue the white details on the colored background with the Erich Krause glue pencil. The circles should not be located close to the edge of the leaf or vase so that there is enough room for future petals.

The next stage is working with PVA glue. It is preceded by a small briefing. “You need to hold the glue strictly vertically, without tilting. (It flows better this way.) We draw a line, slightly squeezing the tube, trying not to touch the paper. " You can touch, but it "slows down" the hand, the line turns out with "knots". If the glue has not been shaken well, smudges may also appear, so the teacher must first make sure that all tubes are equally well filled.

We draw slightly curved stems with glue.

We add petals around the middle with “loops”, attach long or narrow leaves to the stems, drawing them in the same way as the petals.

Outline the outline of the vase

Fill the path with an arbitrary pattern. It can be straight, smooth, wavy, broken lines, circles, ovals, or just "confusion". It is advisable not to draw lines too close to each other so that they do not merge later.

Sprinkle finished work salt. For this we use coarse salt, not "Extra". You can take it as much as you like. Sprinkle on top, not necessarily trying to get on the glue. When shaking off, the salt will still remain on the lines of the drawing.

Gently shake off the excess by tilting the sheet and lightly tapping on it with back side... We remove excess salt from the table in a box or bucket.
Let's start working with watercolors. First, paint the flower petals. With a brush, select the desired color, lightly touch the petal, and the paint smoothly flows from it onto the drawing, filling the entire line. There are several filling options. First: all flowers have one color, second: each has its own color, third - nothing will be repeated, all lines are multi-colored.

Then the stems and leaves appear in the drawing. You can take one green color, or use several shades of green.

The drawing is completed by working with patterns on the vase. There are two ways to work here: Either fill in each line of the pattern gradually, color by color, or take colors and randomly place them on the vase, observing the inevitable mixing.
The following photos show children's drawings.

"Butterfly"

This work helps children to better understand the laws of symmetry, develops memory, attention, imagination. Previewing a presentation with photographs of butterflies, drawing butterflies using carbon paper will help reinforce the concept of symmetry.
We take one sheet of colored paper and a quarter of a sheet of white paper.

Fold the white sheet in half. Cut out the butterfly along the contour. We do not draw or cut the antennae.

We glue it on a colored background with a glue stick "Erich Krause".

Now we take PVA glue and outline the entire butterfly along the contour, drawing the antennae,

Pay attention to the middle of the picture. Select the head and body with glue.

We share the wings.

The next step is drawing patterns.
We start creating patterns with large elements

Then add small parts trying to work simultaneously on two wings.

Sprinkle salt on the butterfly

Shake off the salt
Watercolor painting is the most crucial stage. Also, at the same time, we distribute the color on the symmetrical patterns of the wings. The yellow stripe on the right is the same on the left, the red circle on the right is the same on the left.

Children's works

"Rybka"

To create this composition, we also need a sheet of colored paper and a quarter sheet of white paper.

A silhouette of a fish is cut out from a white sheet. You can use a stencil, and for younger preschoolers, the teacher cuts out the silhouettes.
Further steps are similar:
We glue the silhouette of the fish with Erich Krause glue, circle it with PVA glue, glue the head, eyes, mouth, scales on the sides of the fish and patterns on the fins. Add stones or sandy bottom, algae, air bubbles if desired.
The next step is sprinkling with salt. Gently, without touching the sheet with our hands, sprinkle the entire image, shake it off. We take watercolors, a brush and start the creative process. He's very addicting. Children get a lot of positive emotions.

One of the most accessible and uncomplicated is the technique of painting with watercolors and salt, however, when working with it, you need to know a few nuances in order for the effect to manifest itself with the greatest strength. It is because of non-observance of the key rules that beginners at first often fail to understand the "secret" of this technique. Today we will paint step by step with salt and watercolors, while answering frequently asked questions.

Where can this technique be used?

In fact, its use is very wide and a lot depends on your imagination. It is often used to show falling snow or a blizzard, sometimes to convey the bumpy surface of the earth, or the feeling of the softness of flowers. It can also lighten dark areas.

Watercolors and salt can be used to create a complete painting, or use this technique as an additional painting effect.

The tools we need:

• Watercolor paper. More often, coarser paper (cold-pressed) is used, but smoother (hot-pressed) paper is also used.
• Watercolor.
• Brushes.
• Table or sea salt.
  The question is, is there a difference between common salt, table salt and sea salt? Basically, the effect is the same, but because the sea salt is coarser, it will leave larger specks. It also differs from table salt in that it can be poured onto a wetter surface (more details about working with table salt will be described in the instructions).
• Soft brush (to wipe off salt).

Instructions:

Before starting work, it would be good to conduct an experiment on a draft to see the reaction of salt on your paint. Salt can behave differently with each pigment, so if you want to know exactly what you will get, then it is better to take the time first.

1. We start to paint with watercolors. If you want the effect of the salt to appear as vividly as possible, then use more paint. At this stage, the drawing should be very wet.
2. You need to wait for the moment when the drawing dries out a little and the shine becomes less bright, but the sheet is still wet. It will take about half a minute from the start of drying.
   Important If you put salt on a sheet that is too wet or almost dry, there will be little use from it. The main thing in this technique is to catch the moment when the drawing is not completely wet, so as not to dissolve the crystals, but also not dry, otherwise the effect will be very weak.
3. Now let's prepare the salt. Do not sprinkle it too high, otherwise it will bounce off. The optimum distance is a few centimeters from the sheet. Sprinkle unevenly by varying the amount of salt to create a more interesting effect. After that, the salt will begin to color, absorbing the pigment and water.
4. The drawing, sprinkled with salt, must be left to dry completely. Because of the salt, it dries longer than usual, so you have to wait about 20-30 minutes. You can dry your work with a hairdryer at a distance. This stage is really important, because if the work does not dry out, the effect will be very weak!
5. After drying, we can shake off the salt crystals. Some of them can stick to the paper, it is better to wipe them off with a soft brush, a wide brush or a piece of cloth so as not to touch the paint layer. Better not to press hard.
6. Then we continue to work. You can easily paint the details over the specks left over from the salt - the watercolor can be easily applied over them.

As we can see, the technique of drawing with salt and watercolors is not so difficult, the most difficult thing in it is to wait for the moment when you need to sprinkle salt and wait for the work to dry completely.

Alena Smirnova

Master- a class for teachers of preschool educational institutions.

Target:

Advocacy among teachers of technology drawing with sea salt as a means of developing the artistic abilities of preschool children.

Material: marine colored and white salt, paper, watercolor, brushes, wax and oil crayons, PVA glue and stationery, etc.

Dear teachers and jury members, I am glad to see you.

The theme of my work "Development of children's creative abilities through artistic creativity".

Chinese proverb reads: "Tell me - and I will forget, show - and I will remember, let me try - and I will understand."

I need 6 teachers as assistants.

More recently, all women have accepted congratulations. And I, too, would like to once again congratulate you on the holiday of spring. And what lovely ladies love most, of course, FLOWERS.

And today I suggest you learn how to make flowers using the salt technique.

To begin with, please select 3 flowers that you like.

1. The first way is salty Painting

Very interesting technique drawing is drawing on salt... The paint spreading effect is simply mesmerizing.

You will need: 1 flower, white salt, PVA glue, gouache paints, brush.

First, apply PVA glue with any patterns to the flower. It can be anything - vertical, horizontal, wavy lines, dots, etc.

Put this flower aside and while it dries we'll get to know another way ...

The flower has dried up and now we will to create: Dilute the gouache with a little water, but not too thin for easy application. The color of the paint can be any, different shades - it's your choice. Apply paint to saline stains, you need to carefully

The paint will be very interesting to spread along the salt "paths".

2. The second method is watercolor, salt and glue

Take another flower and moisten it with water and a brush, then take watercolors and cover the surface, mixing colors to your liking.

While the paints are still dry, add a drop of clear glue, and then sprinkle the drawing with stone salt. Salt creates an interesting effect by absorbing the pigment from the paint when it dries. Plus, it sparkles beautifully.

3. The third method is colored PVA salt and glue.

I offer you another way drawing with salt, but it differs from the first two, there we used a white salt, and now we will paint with colored salt.

We need one more flower, PVA glue and colored salt.

First, decide on the color of the flower and take a certain shade salt.

And now the most creative stage work. Cover the image with a thin layer of PVA glue (gradually, in small areas).

Sprinkle the area where the glue was applied with colored salt(color may be different)- you can use a spoon in work, or you can use your hands.

Excess salt shake it off on a platter.

While you are making flowers, I will draw a vase where we will place our bouquet.

I will draw the outline of the vase with oil crayons and decorate it with a pattern. Then I will take watercolor and paint the vase, and while the paint is still wet I will sprinkle the vase salt, which absorbs the paint and a kind of pattern is obtained.

(or I bring ready, painted vase)

The teachers are gluing flowers.

Did you like paint with sea salt?

What emotions did you experience?

What difficulties do you have during drawing?

I am grateful for your help, in memory of our meeting, I would like to present a small souvenir made by me from colored salt.

Related publications:

Not so long ago, on one of the sites, I spied a lot interesting view work. What is the correct name for this technique, I do not know, but with children.

"Snow for the giraffe." Fine art lesson using non-traditional painting technique with salt for the middle group Integration of NGOs "Knowledge", "Artistic and aesthetic development" Purpose: To teach to transfer in artistic activity, using.

Walking along the Black Sea coast, I gazed intently at the pebbles under my feet. One is not like the other, each is special and.

It would seem that ordinary kitchen salt, which gives a special taste to our dishes, can be useful not only in cooking. I understood that,.

I love horses very much. I decided to draw a horse. Drawn under the guidance of a teacher at school creative drawing... Here is such a horse.

Drawing on milk It is even difficult to say whether it is drawing, or just an interesting experiment. Although, probably, both at the same time. W.

Did you know that salt can be used for painting? We offer several options for creativity with children using this product. Show the children these techniques, and they will no longer be interested in drawing with simple paint! Take part with drawings and win a prize.

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Salted watercolor

Watch with the children how the paint spreads over the glue sprinkled with salt. When the glue dries, these patterns will become bright and shiny.

For children from 2 years old.

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You will need:

- A pack of regular table salt

- Cardboard or heavy watercolor paper

- A bottle of stationery glue

- Watercolor (liquid watercolor is best, but you can also dilute the gouache with water)

- Brush

Instructions:

1. With glue, paint something on the cardboard.

2. Place this cardboard in a baking dish. Sprinkle some salt on the glue pattern.

3. Remove the sheet and shake off excess salt. Repeat until the glue lines are completely covered with salt.

4. Dip a paintbrush into the paint and gently touch the salted glue line. The paint will flow over it.

5. Try different colors in different parts of the picture until the whole picture is completely colored.

6. Dry (the process may take two to three days).

Since the work of children with bulk products threatens to clean up for a long time after class, it is best to put cardboard or paper in a baking dish, frying pan or other container with sides.
Even if you explain that you only need to touch the glue pattern with a brush, small children can still draw bold lines or smudge glue, salt, and paint. This is totally normal. If you repeat this exercise periodically, over time they will do everything right and watch in fascination as the paint spreads from the light touch of the brush.

Lush paint

Kids love to squeeze paint straight out of the bottle and paint with it. The paints dry out and form shiny raised lines.

For children from 1.5 years old.

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You will need:

- 1 glass of salt

- 1 glass of flour

- 1 glass of water

- Gouache in four colors

- Cardboard

- Plastic bottles for squeezing out paint (old bottles of ketchup and mustard, as well as shampoo and detergents are suitable)

Instructions:

1. Mix salt, flour and water.

2. Distribute the mixture between three or four bottles.

3. Add a tablespoon of gouache to each bottle. Place the caps on the bottles and shake or shake them to stir.

4. Squeezing paint onto cardboard, create any patterns. The smallest children will most likely just make huge puddles, older children can try to draw something.

5. Dry the cardboard (this will take two to three days).

Children love the process of creating this paint as much as the drawing itself. The remaining paint will remain for another two to three days in the refrigerator in a closed container. If the neck of the bottle is too narrow, you may need to make a larger hole.

From book "Creative education"

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