Happy Zoo Animate Existence Tabular Array Salt Paradigm For Kids
December 18, 2018
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This calendar week is Zoo Week too nosotros are kicking off the calendar week amongst 2 giraffe themed crafts that tin easily hold upward adapted to operate amongst whatever variety of creature or theme.
To foremost off nosotros read Giraffe's Can't Dance yesteryear Giles Andreae too and hence nosotros did around giraffe common salt painting!
Giles Andreae is our Virtual Book Club for Kids writer for July hence nosotros accept loved getting to know around of his books better.
Salt painting is slow too a lot of fun! It also is a cracking action for edifice potent finger muscles, since involves around fine motor skills.
Materials Needed:
- Giraffe printable... or a printable for your favorite animal (printed on cardstock)
- salt
- medicine dropper (or paintbrush)
- white glue
- liquid watercolors
- water
- bowls (or cups for paint)
Directions:
To acquire started I pre-cut the giraffes.
Next I gave each kid a bottle of white mucilage too they added drops too designs to their giraffes. They wanted their giraffes to accept colorful spots. My iii twelvemonth onetime had to hold upward reminded non to but brand the entire matter ane large blob of glue.
Next nosotros sprinkled common salt all over the mucilage using a common salt shaker. My kids dear to operate our handheld vacuum hence I wasn't likewise worried almost the mess on the table, but if y'all are, brand certain to seat your epitome on a tray or within a shallow box to incorporate the mess a bit. After the mucilage by too large dried nosotros shook off excess salt.
Once the common salt too mucilage was by too large dried (not completely though since my kids couldn't aspect that long)... too hence nosotros added drops of liquid watercolors (diluted a fleck amongst water) to the salt/glue using medicine droppers too watched every bit the colors spread.
The kids actually had to do exclusively picking upward too squeezing out a piffling watercolor at a fourth dimension hence that they didn't completely alluvion their animals amongst color. We kept a slice of newspaper towel nearby to dab upward colors if they ended upward flooding the animals :) The newspaper towel rapidly sucked upward around of the excess water.
After their creations by too large dried too hence nosotros mounted them to colored cardstock to display. We made certain to give them around other milkshake inwards the trash earlier nosotros hung them upward to acquire to a greater extent than of the excess common salt off of them.
My kids loved this common salt epitome procedure too are excited to endeavour it amongst a few of their other favorite animals!
Ways to include younger toddlers...
I did this action amongst my vi too 3 twelvemonth onetime during my 1 twelvemonth old's nap time. If you'd similar to endeavour this action amongst your younger toddler y'all may desire to give them a pigment brush instead of an oculus dropper. Be prepared to accept the giraffe (and your child) covered all over inwards glue, salt, too liquid watercolors. I know my 1 twelvemonth onetime would've loved this! I prefer to create activities similar this either exterior or amongst my 1 twelvemonth onetime strapped into his high chair. Instead of cutting the giraffe out, but record the entire newspaper inwards house on a tabular array or high chair tray.
If your kid likes to swallow paint, glue, too salt, endeavour doing this every bit a mess costless activity. Cover your giraffe inwards mucilage too stick it inwards a large ziploc baggie. Add pigment too common salt too closed the baggie. Tape the baggie to a window or tabular array too permit your kid create around mess costless baggie painting! I'm certain the sense volition hold upward but every bit fun too champaign beautiful results!
Have y'all done common salt epitome before? Have whatever other tips to part amongst me?
Do y'all accept whatever other favorite zoo themed crafts or activities or books y'all could part amongst us? Head on over to our Zoo Week landing page to run into the other activities every bit nosotros part them this week. Check dorsum after this calendar week to run into our other giraffe themed action every bit well!
Make certain to come upward dorsum side yesteryear side Mon (July 14th) for to a greater extent than Giles Andreae majority inspired crafts too activities too our Virtual Book Club for Kids July Blog Hop!