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Hi everyone, welcome back to Curious By Nature.
My name is Airen and today is an extra special episode
because Katherine Lampert is back with a winter art craft for us.
My name is Katherine Lampert and today we're going to paint with snow.
So the first thing that you're going to need is a snowy day
and the other materials that you'll be using are some sort of palette.
I'm just going to use this empty egg crate, but you can use a muffin tin,
or if you have a fancy artist palette with little cups in it that works.
I also have some empty containers for my color,
these pipettes which are optional,
a few spoons,
and for your color you're going to use either food coloring
or you can buy liquid washable watercolor paints.
I'm using food coloring just because that's what I had laying around.
But if you are really concerned about staining, which food coloring can do,
then you might want to get the liquid washable watercolors which are great for kids.
The first thing I'm going to do is fill up my palette with snow,
and then I'm going to take my water and pour a little bit of water into a few containers.
I'm just going to put a couple of drops of food coloring in these containers,
a few drops goes a long way.
You might want to mix these around a little bit with a spoon.
So then I'm going to use these optional pipettes
and I'm going to use them to take some of my color and color my snow.
So if you want to, and you don't have pipettes,
you can actually just put a few drops of food coloring right into your snow
and then mix it around with your spoon and color it that way.
Or you can use your spoon, add a little color that way to your snow.
The next thing I'm going to do is start scooping my snow right onto my watercolor paper.
And if you're doing this project with a group of kids or as a family project,
I think it can be really fun to work on a really big sheet of paper and do it all together as a group project.
You can also use your pipette to put color right onto the paper or right into your snow.
And, why not, let's just dump it on there.
I love seeing those colors mix together.
I like using the primary colors red, blue, and yellow
because you can make all of the other colors from them,
so it's fun to try mixing other colors right on your paper.
Now, I'm going to sprinkle some salt on top.
I'm using this very coarse sea salt,
and the reason that I'm sprinkling salt is salt absorbs moisture,
so it has a really interesting effect when you use it with watercolors or food coloring.
It absorbs some of the water and leaves kind of a speckled pattern.
You don't need the super coarse sea salt, though.
You can also use just some regular table salt and you can use both for a variety of textures.
Now that I've finished, I'm going to bring my piece inside
so that the snow can melt and so that the paint can dry.
I'm going to place it into some sort of tray or a sink so that all of that excess moisture
has somewhere to go other than my table.
So when your piece is dry, it will look like this.
You might want to brush off some of your salt and then you can see, if you look close up,
some of those speckled patterns where your salt absorbed some of the moisture on your paper.
You can also leave some of the salt on, it's sort of like natural glitter.
And that's how you paint with snow.
That's our show for today and thank you so much for tuning in.
And a special thanks to Katherine for always having such a great project for us.
Katherine's work is linked below, and be sure to send a picture online of what you came up with.
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