Exploring the Great Outdoors - Meridian International Center

Summer
Activities
Salt Water Painting
Materials: salt, paper, containers, water, paint brushes,
food coloring, measuring cups
Procedure:
1. Mix 1/4 cup warm water with 1/4 cup of salt in a container. Then add several drops of food
coloring to the mixture, one color per container.
2. Using paint brushes, paint onto paper with the salt water mixture. Be sure to share the
different colors of the mixture!
3. Lay the paintings to dry overnight. The water will evaporate from the paper, leaving the
colored salt on the paper.
4. Show off your new cool salt-art!
Materials: Two sheets of newspaper,
colored paper (including
one large sheet), kite string,
fabric scraps, glue, tape,
markers
make a Kite
Procedure:
1. Fold one sheet of newspaper in half, and roll it up tightly to make a pole. Tape it at either end,
and in the middle. Then do the same thing with the other sheet of newspaper. Make an “X” out
of your two poles, and then tie them together in the middle.
2. Tie and tape the string to one end of the poles, then wrap and tape the string around each of
the other ends as you move around your “X”. This will look like the outline of a kite shape.
3. Lay the kite frame on top of the larger piece of paper and trace your frame - be sure to trace a
little bit larger than the kite frame. Cut this shape out and then cut off each of the four pointed
corners. Use markers, colored paper and glue to decorate your kite.
4. Lay the kite frame on the back of the kite cutout, and fold the paper over the string on one side
of the kite. Tape it down. Then repeat on other three sides. Add a string and a tail made out of
fabric scraps. Now take it outside and fly it!
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