Paper Plate Salt Art

Paper Plate Salt Art

 Mark 9:50  Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

• Elmer’s glue
• Food coloring
• Paint brushes
• Pencil
• Salt
• Unwaxed paper plates
• Zip lock baggies

Pour half a cup of salt into four different baggies.  Put a few drops of one color of food coloring in the first bag.  Seal the baggie and gently shake to mix the coloring throughout the salt.  Repeat the process with a different color in the other three bags.

Give each child a paper plate and a pencil.  Have them draw a picture that has large open spaces. 

 

Thin the glue with a little water.  Have the child paint all the spaces that will be the same color with glue.  Let the glue dry for a minute.  Sprinkle on the first color of salt.  After a couple of minutes shake off the excess into a trash container.  Now, you are ready to do the next color.  Repeat the process until the picture is done.

For those students who need a little help with the drawing, you could have some shapes available for them to trace.

Epson Salt Crafts

 Epson Salt Crafts

• Small jar
• Used fabric softener sheets
• Aluminum pie pan
• Scissors
• Bamboo skewers

So, you have finished your keepsake jar and salt pictures.  Now, what to do with the left over salt? Try adding putting some of the salt in a small jar and adding hot water.  Wait a few days to see what crystals form.  

A lot of people are fascinated with crystals, many believing them to possess power that can be used for healing and spiritual growth.  Is it okay to be actively involved with crystal healing and crystal power? What advice does the Bible give in this matter?  Crystals certainly are beautiful objects, for they were created by God. Part of God's magnificent heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, will be constructed from crystal. But, like all so called magic, the ability of crystals to heal is false.  Satan wants us to believe in false miracles. All true miracles come from God.

Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

After removing the crystals, a second thing to do with the salts is to pour out the remaining salt water onto a used fabric softener sheet that has been placed in an aluminum pie pan.  Let it dry for a few days.  Tiny crystals will form on the surface.  Cut the softener sheet in various shapes and string it onto a bamboo skewer.  Use it as a plant stake to make an artificial plant give off a wonderful smell like a real plant.