During an art lesson year 5.2 students did a rainbow salt jar project with the class teacher. Students brought an empty glass jar from home , a packet of salt and coloured chalk (pastel colours).

The teacher gave each pupil a piece of rough paper where students poured some salt on it and then they rubbed the chalk back and forth across the salt to give it the desired colour. Carefully children started pouring the layer of coloured salt into the jar.  They repeated this process, pouring layers at angles and around the jar to get interesting strata.  They repeated until the jar was completely full.  At the end children made sure not to shake the rainbow salt jar as this would mix the layers up.

Students loved the process of making it, the way the colours looked next to each other and how the layers undulated in the jar.  Indeed some of them did other rainbow salt jars at home.

We put theses rainbow jars on the classroom’s window sills to decorate the class.

Submitted by Ms Miranda Cauchi, Yr 5.2 teacher