Watercolor & Salt Apple Painting

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INSIDE: Watercolors & salt apple painting is a beautiful craft for kids! It creates a stunning picture you’ll want to put on your fridge this Fall!

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How to Make Watercolor & Salt Apple Painting

Grab a sheet of watercolor paper. You can either do this activity using a white crayon or with colourful oil pastels. Grab 4 bowls and add a drop of red, green, yellow and brown food colouring inside each respectively. Mix them with some water. You can also use watercolors for this activity.

White Crayon & Salt Apple Painting

If using a white crayon, draw three apples on the paper is different sizes, including the stem and a leaf.

Grab your coloured water and brush and start to paint the apples. They won’t be able to see the apples at first but they will magically appear when they start to paint the page. Paint the apples, red, green and yellow. Paint the stems and leafs brown and green.

While the paint is still wet, sprinkle a little salt over the coloured water. You want the paint to still be wet so that the salt can absorb the water. The salt acts like a sponge and sucks up a small amount of the water and colour leaving a cool pattern behind. Experiment with different amounts of salt of each apple. The more salt you add the more they absorb but the less effect you will have but it will still create pretty cool texture on your apple.

Allow your painting to dry. Once dry gently tip your picture over to shake off any salt that didn’t stick. It should stay on your page unless you added a lot of salt.

Oil Pastel & Salt Apple Painting

If using a colourful oil pastels, draw three apples, one red, one green and one yellow on the page including the leaf and stem in brown and green.

For the oil pastel they can paint the apples red, yellow and green or whatever they like.

Allow your painting to dry. Once dry gently tip your picture over to shake off any salt that didn’t stick. It should stay on your page unless you added a lot of salt.

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Age Suitability

This activity is good for kids 3 years and up. My kids are 3, 3, and 7 year old.

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