"Sand" Art
By Janet Rudolph
Photo by Charles Cary
What You'll Need:
- clear plastic bottle with lid
- colored chalk
- sandpaper
- bowls
- ¼ cup of salt
- spoon
- paper coffee filter
- pencil
- ribbon
How to Make It:
- Soak off the label from a clean plastic bottle.
- To make colored "sand," grind a half-stick of colored chalk against sandpaper into a bowl, and mix in ¼ of salt. Make several colors, each in its own bowl. The total amount should be enough to fill the bottle.
- Spoon layers of colored "sand" through a funnel into the bottle. (To make a funnel, poke a hole in a paper coffee filter.)
- Use a blunt pencil to push designs into the layers.
- Put the lid on the bottle, and add a ribbon, if you wish. (Do not use the salt on food after mixing it with chalk.)
