Crystal art

I'll start off by saying I think this was a flop only because the finished product really didn't look like much. BUT the kids had a blast doing it, and I have ideas how to make it better.
This is what we did:

You need:
salt
a couple small bowls
a couple different colors of food coloring
water
paper
paintbrushes

What to do:
Put about 4 ts of salt in each bowl. Pour in about a quarter cup of warm water. Stir but don't let the salt dissolve all the way. Put 2-3 drops of food coloring in each bowl. Use the paintbrush to scoop up the salt and use it to paint. As it dries it will have a crystally effect on the paper.

What I learned:
More salt is better so that you can just scoop up mushy salt. Also, don't think you're going to paint anything in particular...once the water dries you just have a salt, sparkly paper. I think this would be nice to accent something to make it sparkly....without having a glue and glitter mess.
So here's what it looked like....yeah doesn't look like much...but now I have tons of fun ideas for it! Sparkly fronts of cards. Backgrounds to banners. Etc!