Salt & Food Color Letters

It is Fire Safety week so we talked a lot about 911 and made these neat salt & food color 911 signs.

Very easy. First write your letters/numbers in white glue. Our background was cereal box cardboard.  That makes is stiff enough to hold up to rough treatment!

Then sprinkle salt all over the glue and shake off the excess but not too much.  The more salt the better later. 

Let dry overnight. 

This next step is tricky for little fingers.  One drop at a time add liquid food color to the salt.

The color will "run" all by itself down the salt path.

Add extra drops as needed. 

We added a pipe cleaner handle with beads in order to hang it from a door handle or somewhere visible just in case of an emergency.  

SKILLS INVOLVED: tracing with glue, sprinkling salt, deciding the glue was covered, following instructions, fine motor beading and squeezing

WOULD WE DO IT AGAIN: Definitely.  We did this last year writing the kids' names.  Lots of fun.

RECYCLE FACTOR:We used cereal boxes for the cardboard background, glue, salt, pipe cleaners, beads were on hand.  We did use up all the liquid food color that we had and had to get more.  The kids have a really hard time not just squeezing it all over the place.