Painting with Watercolors, Glue and Salt

Ever since our adventure with “secret message watercolor painting” the munchkin has been enamored with his watercolors. So this week we decided to mix things up a bit by painting with watercolors, clear Elmer’s glue and salt. Isn’t the final result neat? The idea for using glue and salt with watercolors came from Pinterest. As you can see in the photo above, the munchkin was super into this activity. We used canvases for our paintings because I had some around, but watercolor paper would work equally well. After setting everything up the process was simple and fun! So, kinda like cloud watching, the munchkin was all about seeing shapes in the blobs of glue. After adding the glue the final step was sprinkling salt around on the painting. I put the finished paintings on the counter to dry, which took a few hours. Frequently Asked Questions I seem to get a lot of questions about this post so I thought it would be helpful to share some of the most common ones here. I have no idea! Yes. Ari

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