Salt tray is a very simple, filled with fun and a learning activity for toddlers to develop their pre-writing skills. It is specially a very good activity for introducing writing and drawing pictures with minimal materials. Moreover the materials can be reused. Rainbow salt tray is even more fun as the background of the picture turns out to be colourful. This activity also enhances creativity, fine motor development, hand eye co-ordination and spatial awareness of the child.

Materials needed

• Tray
• Salt
• colour papers (red, orange, yellow, green, blue)
• white paper
• Flashcards (for numbers and alphabet tracing)

Method

• First cut the strips of the coloured papers according to the size of the tray.
• Now take a white paper and stick each strip one by one to form a rainbow background for our salt tray
• Add salt to the tray and use any stick or this activity can be done with fingers too.
• The child can now draw pictures and trace the alphabets and numbers by looking at the flashcards.

About me 

I am Seema Katti, an IT professional and now a mother to a toddler indulged in many creative works and DIY’s and we do many early learning activities along with art and craft. I believe that a mother is the first and the best teacher for a child. I am so amazed by the early learning concept, so I love to share our journey and experiences in the form of my YouTube channel and blog with the name creativemommystuff.