Submitted by: Linda Otis-Gutman, a teacher at Jackson Elementary School in El Dorado Hills, CA.

Objectives:

What You Need:

• Clean baby food jars; 6-8 sm. 2oz.
• plastic or paper cups
• sand (or salt)
• powdered tempera paint
• plastic spoons
• popsicle sticks or tooth picks
• stickers
• colored yarn or feathers

What You Do:

1. Fill cups 2/3 with salt or sand.

2. Add different colors of powdered tempera paint to each cup.

3. Use plastic spoons to mix.

4. You can mix different colors of powder for various additional colors.

5. Pour or spoon colored salt or sand into jars in layers.

6. Use sticks to push against the inside of the jars to create designs.

7. Cap tightly.

8. Put a colorful sticker on the top of each jar or glue some colorful feathers to the top.

9. Tie colorful yarn around the outside edge of the lid.

Recommended Products:

Plastic Sand Bottles with Cork (pk/24) Plastic bottles w/ corks. Ready to decorate. 1-1/4" x 4-1/2". Pack of 24.

Sand Bottles, Assortment Smile & Peace (pk/6) Create beautiful sand art statues with these great bottles. Fill them with our fine or coarse sand (sold separately) for a one-of-a-kind creation. For added flair, add glitter to the sand mix. Perfect as a fun group activity. Includes corks. Each bottle is 3" to 7" tall and holds about 6 to 10 oz. of sand. Pack of 6.

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