Colored Salt Bottles - Dori Reuss

Colored Salt Bottles - this project was one of the original ones. Dori Reuss ran this one again when she got reinvolved in the Holiday Workshop.

Materials:
• Multiple various shaped small bottles, e.g. baby food, spice, miniature jelly
• Sidewalk chalk, big pieces
• Salt, 12 cylinder containers
• 6 Paper plates
• 6 Plastic spoons
• Short thin dowels or tooth picks
• Aluminum foil
• Curling ribbon

1. Fill 6 plates with a cup of salt
2. Color the salt by rubbing the sidewalk chalk in the salt. You can do this with the rainbow colored chalk
3. Spoon in layers into small bottles with plastic spoon
4. Optional – tip bottle as you work
5. Optional – use dowel several times around the edges to make “icicles” around the outside
6. Make sure to fill to the very top so the sand does not move once finished. You can also tap occasionally to help the sand settle
7. When done, cut a circle of aluminum foil an inch wide than the top. Fold in the edges of the foil into the rim of the lid.
8. Firmly screw on the lid
9. Cut 12 “ curling ribbon and tie this around the neck of the bottle
10. Encourage the children to continue to make the colored salt for the next participants to use