Sand Art

Sand art therapy helps to express children the “inexpressible”. Playing with sand helps to express feelings and aspects of the personal life experiences. There are no borders for expression except the bottle itself (in case of bottle sand art, which we tried with Maria). One can experiment with colours, forms, combinations…

Bottle sand art turned out to be easy, fun and exciting! Maria could not help playing with the sand, despite being late for her gymnastics class. She really enjoyed the process and the result, which can easily become a nice present.

Before filling up the bottles, we prepared some sand additionally as we lacked several colours – yellow, red, brown. The preparation process enthralled Maria as well:

1.       Pour some vodka in the bowl;
2.       Add gouache;
3.       Add semolina to get homogeneous mass, which should become dry and as crumbly as the sand.

Then, you are ready to proceed with filling up the bottles, which, by the way, to a great extent resembles Montessori type exercise.

We had some sand left over, so we decided to make a dolphin sand painting as well.