The idea behind the activity is to show your little one how salt
"absorbs" the colors and pulls it along the web of glue. You
will need card stock, an eyedropper, salt, glue and colored
water. We used about two tablespoons of water and five or six
drops of neon food coloring. Depending on your work space you
may want to place your card stock on a rimmed baking sheet to
contain the mess. Have your little one make a design on the card
stock with glue, then sprinkle salt all over the wet glue until
it is completely covered. You will want to shake off the excess
salt! Next let your child use the eyedropper to drip colored
water, one drop at a time, onto the salt. As the salt absorbs
the liquid, the water should move along the glue lines making a
beautiful web of color. As you can see the color moved quickly
across some lines and just bubbled up on others. I think the
absorption didn't go too well for us due to the fact that we
used washable glue and Biscuit was really excited to drop the
colors on the paper, so p