DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Salt Crystal Snowflake
Create your own sparkly snowflake like the Tasha's! At 8 years old, she really enjoyed carefully drawing her eight sided snowflake.
Materials:
- Hot water (preferably boiled beforehand)
- A cup or mug
- Salt (we used table salt)
- thick black paper (It should be very heavy paper or cardstock. We found that plain construction paper will not work. This is VERY important)
- Paintbrush
Instructions:
- Boil water and pour it into a cup that can withstand hot water.
- Add a couple of teaspoons of salt and stir with the paintbrush until it dissloves.
- Continue to add salt a teaspoon at a time until it no longer dissolves and there are salt crystals at the bottom of the cup even after stirring for a while.
- Paint your snowflake.
- Tip: Every time you go to dip your brush in the salt water be sure you to stir the solution so that your salt crystals don't all sink to the bottom of the cup.
- Leave your art to dry overnight
Craft Templates:
- There aren't "templates" for this project -- it's more of an art project than a craft and the children are expected to design their own snowflake using the salt water.
- You can provide the children with a few pictures of snowflakes to provide them with some inspiration (an idea of how to draw a snowflake).
- Snowflake 1 and Snowflake 2 are both coloring pages that would work well as inspiration.
Printable version of these instructions
