salt painting

Remember when I said that Seth is obsessed with painting?  Well, I found a great idea of a variation of painting called salt painting.  We did it last week and Seth LOVED it.

Salt Painting:

1} Take a piece of clear contact paper, sticky side up, and lay it on your table.

2} Sprinkle table salt all over the contact paper - the more salt, the better.

3} Using a pipette, suck up really wet watercolors and squirt onto the salt.

4} Watch it spread!

The finished product is actually really stunning.  My only problem with this project is what to do with it after you're done.  Because it turned out so cool, I thought I would let it dry and try putting another piece of contact paper over the top and frame it.  Ha.  That was a joke.  Not only did it take days to dry, it just fell right off of the contact paper when I tried to move it.  So, this is more of an experiment with paint than an actual piece of artwork, but fun nonetheless.