DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Salt Crystal Snowflake

Create your own sparkly snowflake like the Tasha's!

	Hot water (preferably boiled beforehand)
	A cup or mug
	Salt (we used table salt)
	thick black paper (It should be heavy paper or cardstock. We found that plain construction paper will not work.)
	Paintbrush

	Boil water and pour it into a cup that can withstand hot water.
	Add a couple of teaspoons of salt and stir with the paintbrush until it dissloves.
	Continue to add salt a teaspoon at a time until it no longer dissolves and there are salt crystals at the bottom of the cup even after stirring for a while.
	Paint your snowflake.
	Tip: Every time you go to dip your brush in the salt water be sure you to stir the solution so that your salt crystals don’t all sink to the bottom of the cup.
	Leave your art to dry overnight

	There aren't "templates" for this project -- it's more of an art project than a craft and the children are expected to design their own snowflake using the salt water.
	You can provide the children with a few pictures of snowflakes to provide them with some inspiration (an idea of how to draw a snowflake).
	Snowflake 1 and Snowflake 2 are both coloring pages that would work well as inspiration.
	Close the coloring page window after printing to return to this screen.
	Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).