Burning Bush Salt Art

Today we lit up our Passover story learning with Burning Bush Salt Art!!! This was another really simple set up but with such a fun process, beautiful results, and a meaningful learning experience!

What You’ll Need

Cardstock
Glue
Sticks
Salt
Liquid watercolors in yellow and red
Paintbrush and/or pipette

Putting It Together

Gather some sticks. Such a fun opportunity for a nature walk with the kids!
Invite your children to put glue on their cardstock. They can glue their sticks however they want and also spread glue around the sticks on as much of the paper as they wish. *We found our sticks did not stay glued to the paper with regular Elmer’s glue so I had to go back and attach them with a glue gun.
Spread salt over the paper. Move the paper back and forth to evenly spread the salt, discarding the excess that falls off (or saving it for more play later).
Use a pipette or a paintbrush to transfer liquid watercolor in yellow and red to the salt. Once it touches the salt it will spread a bit on its on.
Have fun watching this process art take on its own shapes and colors (we loved when the red and yellow mixed to make orange!)!
Read your favorite Passover story book and/or our Passover Story Sequencing cards to review this part of the story.

Finished & Loving It!

The kids loved this Burning Bush Salt Art process art! They were so excited to see the colors spread. They especially loved when they spread in starburst shapes, resembling little bursts of flame to them.

We spread our glue with paintbrushes but you could of course use squeeze glue bottles as well!

We always love collecting nature and using it in arts, crafts and play so the kids were excited to collect the sticks they used for this activity.

This activity was also a great opportunity to talk about primary colors and how when red and yellow mix together they make orange.

This process art was a great way to practice fine motor skills, using either the pipette or the paint brush. The pipette takes some getting used to; the kids have to understand how to squeeze the top to suck in the water then let go to release it.

Process art also is a lovely way for children to explore creativity and artistic exploration. There is no correct final product, it’s all about watching and exploring and enjoying the process.

We read the section about the Burning Bush in one of our favorite Passover story books, Let My People Go! We also read the corresponding card from our Passover Story Sequencing set so that we understood how this part of the story related to the larger story.

I love focusing on each part of the Passover story with hands-on, fun activities so that the kids can remember these experiences when we retell the Passover story during the seder. It makes their connection deeper, and of course, more meaningful and fun!