If you’re looking for craft ideas to teach kids, do as a family, or simply as occupational therapy, this decorative design on glass jars with salt and chalk is a fun and inexpensive art project that can even help you make money if you like to live a self-sufficient lifestyle.
An excellent idea to recreate landscape designs in glass jars with children. This art craft, gives a different atmosphere in the decoration to any corner of the house, simple, inexpensive and very entertaining to do. You are going to learn how to color salt with chalk to create impressive works of art.
Usually, sand is used for this type of project, but also salt, and it’s even better as it can be colored easily. It is also very cheap, since you can color salt with chalk and you do not have to buy colored sand, which is usually expensive in craft stores.
Decorative design on glass jars with salt and chalk
Needed
- Jar.
- Salt.
- Colored chalk.
- Sheets of newspaper or whatever you want to reuse.
Process
- First of all, place a newspaper on a table, this will be your work surface.
- Put the salt on the paper and add a little more than the amount you want to have when you’re done.
- Take the chalk (the color you like) and roll over the salt, rubbing.
- Keep doing this until the salt turns to the color of chalk.
- Roll up the paper in order to keep the salt from falling on the ground and pour it into a container.
- Repeat this process until you have all the colors you want and then you can start creating your art project with chalk and salt.
You can use all the different colors you want and create different designs. With the dyed salt, it should be poured as shown in the image, turning the bottle to generate different effects. It is very important not to move the bottle abruptly to avoid mixing the colors.
Finally, it is convenient to fill to the top of the bottle, leaving a layer of approximately 5 millimeters to seal with hot candle wax and create a cap.
