These puffy line drawings made with glue and salt are so pretty! Salt painted snowflakes are such a great winter craft for kids that's part art project and part science experiment.
Choose and print your snowflake templates. We have 12 different snowflakes available for you (find the link in the materials list above). You can also draw your own snowflake designs.
To trace the snowflake, place it against a well lit window.You can also put it over a tablet or computer monitor with a blank white screen and the brightness turned up high.
Next place a piece of watercolor paper on top of the template. You should be able to see the snowflake through the paper.
Use a pencil to trace the lines of the snowflake onto the watercolor paper.
Step 3: Mix the liquid watercolor paint
Pour a little bit of water into a deep paint palette or into small bowls (1 section or bowl per colour).
Add 1 - 2 drops of paint to each bowl. This will create a pastel colour.If you'd like brighter coloured snowflakes try to make a mixture of 3 parts water to 1 part paint.
Use the top end of the paintbrush to mix the paint into the water.
Step 4: Add glue and salt to the paper
Trace the lines of the snowflake with white glue.
Pour a generous amount of salt on the glue, making sure it's completely covered.
Tilt the paper and let the extra salt fall off.You can put the paper upside-down briefly, but don't tap or shake the paper -- it can cause too much salt to fall off, and the glue may flatten.You can re-use this extra salt for your next painting.
Step 5: Add paint to the raised salt
Dip your paintbrush in the paint. Then lightly touch the brush to the salt-covered glue.Watch as the paint spreads, like magic, across the salt!
Continue adding a little bit of paint at a time, and enjoy watching the paint spread across the salt.
You can use different colours of paint on one snowflake. For this snowflake we added a second colour to the tips.
Your snowflake salt painting is complete!Have fun experimenting with different designs and colours.