Salt Painted Kid-Made Christmas Ornament

Salt painting is such a fun process art activity for kids and the creations always turn out so gorgeous. We did this simple art technique and then turned them into a kid-made Christmas ornament that can be hung on the Christmas tree or combined to make a Christmas garland.

Materials

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Watercolor paper
Glue
Food coloring or liquid watercolors
Pipettes
Epsom salt (or table salt if you don’t have Epsom salt)
Scissors
Hole punch
Decorative Ribbon

Get started by having kids randomly squeeze glue on the watercolor paper. This is a great step to do the day before you want to paint, because they will need to dry overnight.

Use pipettes to drop liquid watercolors or food coloring with a bit of water onto the watercolor paper. We chose to keep the colors separate so we wouldn’t have a brown mixture for our ornaments.

Sprinkle Epsom salt on the watercolors and let the paintings dry overnight. Once they are dry shake off the extra salt. You’ll have a beautiful sparkling painting.

Cut them into traditional holiday ornaments shapes. Punch a hole and add ribbon. Then hang them on your Christmas tree or lace them together to make a festive holiday garland.