Colored sand is usually used to create a variety of decorations that are used in wedding ceremonies or simply to decorate the house. It is also widely used for children's creativity. You can buy such sand in specialized stores. But what if you need to buy colored sand urgently, but you don't have time to look for it in stores? In this article we will tell you how quickly and easily you can make colorful sand with your own hands.
How to make colored sand?
It is very easy to create multi-colored sand yourself. For this you do not need a lot of time and effort. In addition, very few simple materials are needed for this.
All we need is:
Colored crayons.
Transparent containers.
So let's get started!
1. Take any dish and add some salt to it. This will be the first layer of colored sand in our container. You can choose the number of layers and their thickness at your discretion.
2. Now take a crayon of the color you want your sand to look like. Grind the crayon and mix it with salt.
3. Pour the resulting colored salt into a container and level its layer so that then the colors do not mix with each other.
4. In the same way, make a layer of sand of a different color and pour it into a container on top of the first one.
5. Continue filling the container in layers until it is completely full, then close the container tightly with the lid.
That's how quickly and easily we made our colored sand, which can be used to create any decorative elements... If you wish, you can also decorate the container itself with something.
Colored sand is gaining in popularity these days. The scope of its application is wide enough. It can be adapted as a material for children's creativity, a vase with this kind of sand can be a great addition to your interior. V this material you will learn how to make colored sand with your own hands.
Colored sand can become a real decoration at your wedding, one of the most important events in the life of every person. In general, the tradition of holding a sand ceremony at a wedding came to us from the Hawaiian Islands, on the shores of which you can find gold, red, white, green and even black sand.
The sand ceremony is a combination of two loving hearts into a single whole - into a family. The essence of the ritual is that the newlyweds, the bride and groom, pour sand painted in different colors from two different vessels into one large transparent container.
It is very problematic to find such sand in a regular store. We offer the simplest and available options... Sand can be made from semolina or salt, but since the two products are different in consistency, the shades are completely different.
Semolina sand
The first way
You will need two components - semolina and crayons. Instead of chalk, you can use crayon leads.
- Grind or grind to a state of dust crayons or slates.
- Mix and mix thoroughly with cereals.
The semolina will turn out to be colored, but not very bright shades. For a brighter color, use oil-based pastel crayons.
Second way
For creativity you will need:
- semolina;
- food colorings;
- vodka or alcohol.
This method is suitable if you need to quickly make colored sand from semolina, since in this option we will use products that quickly evaporate.
- Dilute food colors in a small amount of vodka (alcohol) and add semolina into the mixed liquid.
- Stir well and lay on a flat surface.
- The semolina must be completely dry, otherwise after some time it may become moldy.
- To avoid lumps, knead the rump with your hands.
- By the way, if there were no alcohol-containing products at hand, a hand sanitizer would be a good alternative. It dries instantly and also dissolves food coloring well.
- The amount of dye per serving of cereal can be changed, thereby adjusting the color intensity, achieving a bright or muted shade.
It is not very convenient to paint semolina every time, so you can prepare a collection of colored sand in reserve and store it in transparent containers.
Salt option
If you don't have semolina, then it is quite possible to replace it with table salt, which can be found in every home. At the expense of its white when stained, it acquires more saturated and bright colours... We need salt, gouache and water.
- Dilute colored gouache in a little water.
- Pour the required amount of salt into a cup and start pouring colored water in small portions.
- Stir well until a uniform color is achieved and rub thoroughly, try to use as little water as possible, as the salt can condense and turn into one lump.
- Now you need to dry thoroughly, this can be done in a microwave or oven.
- Heat treatment should be carried out for an hour at a temperature of 100 degrees.
During the drying process, the salt is compressed. To transform it into a free-flowing state, you need to crumble it with your hands or grind it through a fine sieve.
Colored salt can be made with pastel crayons. We need minimal set objects: salt and crayons. Rub the crayons to a powdery state and mix with salt. The method is exactly the same as with colored semolina, but the salt will turn out to be many times richer.
Table salt can be used not only in cooking. Decorating from colored sand "prepared" from such available material like salt is becoming more and more popular. From the new master class, you will learn how to make colored sand from salt with your own hands. And then what? Then bulk paintings or bottles with colored salt can decorate any interior, if created with the love of mother's and children's hands.
Parents, take a little time for your child and play with him contemporary artists... First, prepare colored sand from salt and gouache for creativity. It's simple. Paint the salt with bright paint and fill glass bottles with the resulting sand. Your child will be just happy with this. fun activity, because everything that concerns paints is so popular with children.
Would need:
- paints "Gouache";
- faceted glasses or jars;
- water;
- tea spoon;
- sheets of white paper;
- a vase or bottle for decoration.
How to make colored sand from salt at home - step by step instructions
1. To make multi-colored salt from ordinary children's paints, you need a fresh semi-liquid gouache. Dry paint will take longer. For work, it is most convenient to use a glass container, and preferably a faceted glass or several at once. You need warm water, and a metal spoon. Any salt will go - cheap, so as not to be sorry.
2. So let's get started! Cover the surface of the table with a sheet of paper. Fill a third of the glass with salt. The salt should not have hard lumps.
3. Add 1/3 teaspoon of liquid gouache.
4. Half a spoonful of water.
5. Stir until evenly colored. You can fill half a glass with salt, but then you need a little more paint. The main guideline for brightness. We will carry out similar manipulations with the colors of paints that are favorite for the child. For the decoration, we have chosen blue, red, yellow and green.
6. The resulting mass must be dried. We recommend the fastest way - in the microwave. It is also not forbidden to use the natural drying method in the sun or indoors near heating radiators. Stir the colored salt during the drying process.
7. It is advisable to grind the finished colored sand from salt into more powder - rub through a sieve, beat off in a mortar or in a paper envelope. Novice "artists" can leave everything as it turned out after drying.
8. Now take a small glass vase or figured goblet. The main thing is that the container for the decor is clean and dry. Alternately changing the colors of the salt, fill the container up to the neck. You can combine colored salt with white.
Today we will make colored sand quickly and easily with our own hands, which is perfect for arranging an original wedding. You will learn about two methods of cooking it: from semolina and salt, with photo and video lessons.
Probably absolutely any married couple dreams that their wedding day, a solemn and incredibly important day in life, will be remembered for a long time, especially if it is remembered not only by them.
How to surprise the guests invited to the celebration? Invite your significant other to host a sand ceremony. Carrying it out during a wedding is a fairly common ritual that originated and gained its popularity in Western countries. The condition for this rite is the filling of sand of two different colors into one vessel, which symbolizes the union of two principles, two personalities, two lives into a single whole.
At the wedding ceremony, the future spouses will be provided with three vessels: two with sand and the third empty and very beautiful. Their task is to pour sand into this container, thereby creating a unique pattern, which, as they say, will show the path of their life together.
Naturally, this wonderful creation will not remain where the ceremony took place, but will be taken home, where a picture of sand, created by the joint efforts of a married couple, will become an ideal addition to the interior. That is why it is necessary to completely seal the vessel and transport it carefully, protecting it from any shake.
Having told a little about the ceremony, you can also tell about where to get the sand. Search in all the deserts of the world? You cannot find this material, no matter how long you have traveled, but it can be done by applying the very amount of effort, time and patience expended.
How to make colored sand with your own hands from salt: step by step instructions
You can make multi-colored sand at home with minimum amount costs. This product is quite simple to manufacture and does not require any knowledge of chemistry, biology and other subjects. All you need is this instruction.
The ingredients of this production product will probably be found at home, and if not, then you can buy them without spending much. You only need salt, ordinary will do salt, which is at hand for every housewife, and semi-liquid gouache, paints that can be purchased at any office or ask friends who already have small children in their family.
The description of the manufacturing process will be indicated step by step. Strictly adhere to the sequence!
1) It will be better if you cover work surface sheet plain paper... Take a faceted glass and fill it 1/3 of the entire volume with salt, if the salt has hard lumps, crumble them thoroughly.
2) In a glass of salt, add about 1/3 teaspoon of gouache of the color you like. You can experiment with the amount of paint added to the salt to achieve the desired shade of a particular color.
3) Add one spoonful of water to the existing mixture.
4) Gently stir the mixture until it acquires a uniform color.
5) Dry well the resulting mass. One of the most quick ways can be called a microwave oven. You can also dry it by leaving it in the sun, or near a heating system (batteries or radiators) in a house or apartment, stirring the mixture all the time.
6) Everything is ready. You can find a groom or a bride (if you don't have one yet) and go straight to your own wedding.
Let's try to make original multi-colored sand from semolina
The second way to make colored sand will be based on the coloring of semolina. This option is better suited if you have children at home. After all, they also want to sprinkle sand, so they can be used not only for the wedding ceremony. You can safely let them play with this substance. Many fun activities you can think of for children from colored decoys. An incredible number of notebooks for drawing with sand can be purchased at the store or printed out yourself and pick up glue. Semolina will become irreplaceable in your home.
Such sand is made quite simply using only 3 ingredients: semolina, food coloring, alcohol.
1) A portion of food coloring, always dry, must be mixed with 1 teaspoon of alcohol. (If you don't have alcohol on hand, you can use a hand sanitizer. It will dissolve your food coloring and dry well.)
2) Distribute semolina in different containers
3) Mix semolina and dye liberally until you get the desired color. During this process, the alcohol should completely evaporate.
4) Put the resulting mixture on a sheet of paper to avoid possible clumping of this mass. Dry.
5) Break up any lumps if they appear during the drying process.
Important! Do not use water, semolina will simply become porridge and there will be no sand.
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The invention relates to industry building materials, mainly to methods of dyeing bulk materials, such as quartz sand, stone chips, etc. Technical problem: improving the quality of the painted granular material. The processing of granular material is carried out by moving a cylindrical chamber with a frequency of 300-700 rpm in a circle, the diameter of which is 0.2-0.6 of the inner diameter of the chamber, and the dye is fed into the chamber in the form of a suspension containing 0.1-1.0 wt.% adhesive, 0.3-2.0 wt.% colorant and 2.0-5.0 wt.% water from the material to be painted. 1 tab.
The invention relates to the building materials industry, mainly to methods of painting bulk materials, in particular quartz sand, stone chips, and can be used in the production decorative coatings, concrete and mortars, glass facing tiles, etc. There is a known method of coloring granular material, such as sand, by heat treatment at a temperature of 500-900 o C for 5-40 minutes, followed by cooling the sand, mixing it with the painting composition, drying the resulting mixture and its firing (see, for example, ed. of the USSR 1778089, class C 04 V 20/10, 1998). The high energy intensity of the process, due to the need to conduct it at high temperatures (up to 900 o С), reduces the efficiency of application this method... There is also known a method for dyeing granular material, in which a dye suspension is subjected to activation by treatment in a rotating electromagnetic field with ferromagnetic bodies for 2-3 hours with simultaneous heating to 25-30 o C, and dyeing of granular material is carried out by mixing the resulting activated dye suspension with sand at its wet grinding (see, for example, ed. of the USSR 482078, class C 04 V 20/10, 1974). Activation of the dye suspension allows obtaining a dye characterized by improved dyeing properties with a significant (by 30-40%) reduction in pigment consumption for its production. However, the known method is rather difficult to implement. The closest in technical essence to the proposed one is the method of dyeing granular material by feeding and joint processing of the material and the dyeing composition in a cylindrical chamber (see, for example, ed.St. USSR 1244123, class C 04 V 20/10, 1984). However, being characterized by sufficient simplicity, the known method does not prevent particles of granular material painted with silicate paint from sticking together into lumps, which significantly increases the percentage of rejects of the finished product. The aim of the present invention is to improve the quality of the colored granular material. This goal is achieved by the fact that in the method of dyeing granular material by feeding and joint processing of the material and the dye composition in a cylindrical chamber, the processing is carried out by moving the chamber with the material at a frequency of 300-700 rpm around a circle whose diameter is 0.2-0.6 the inner diameter of the chamber, and the coloring matter is fed into the chamber in the form of a suspension containing 0.3-2.0 wt.% of the coloring matter, 0.1-1.0 wt.% of the adhesive and 2.0-5.0 wt. % of water from the painted material. The method is carried out as follows. A suspension of the coloring composition is prepared, for which the adhesive and water are first fed into the mixer the required amount and mix them for 5-7 minutes. As an adhesive can be used: liquid glass, pl. 1.25-1.3 g / cm 3, polyvinyl acetate emulsion (PVA), acrylic emulsion. The dye is added to the resulting solution and stirring is continued for another 3-5 minutes. The content of the coloring matter in the suspension is selected in the range of 0.3-2.0 wt. %, and adhesive - 0.1-1.0 wt.% of the painted material. In this case, the suspension should contain such an amount of water that its content in the material to be painted is minimal (no more than 2-5 wt.%), Which ensures the most rational processing of the granular material with the coloring suspension without its loss. The finished suspension is pumped into an intermediate tank. The coloring of granular material is carried out in a cylindrical chamber moving at a frequency of 300-700 rpm, along a circle, the diameter of which is 0.2-0.6 of the inner diameter of the chamber, and the center of the circle is displaced relative to the axis of the chamber by 0.2-0.5 the diameter of the chamber. The chamber is continuously fed with granular material and the simultaneously prepared coloring suspension, carrying out their joint processing for 1-4 minutes. The finished product - dyed granular material - after drying, if necessary, is packed in a container. The essence of the proposed method for dyeing granular material is as follows. In the process of joint processing of granular material and dye in a cylindrical chamber on initial stage there is a mechanical application of the substance to the surface of the grain under the action of centrifugal forces, pressing the material and the dye to each other and to inner surface cylindrical chamber. The use of an adhesive to prepare a dye suspension increases the adhesion of the dye to the grain surface during this co-processing step. Subsequently, due to the movement with a high frequency of the cylindrical chamber and the displacement of the center of movement of the chamber relative to its axis, not only an intense mutual collision of the coloring matter and the granular material occurs, but also their activation and chemical interaction, which provide the most durable adhesion to the surface of the granular material of the coloring matter at a minimum consumption the latter. At the exit from the chamber, the particles of granular material acquire a dense colored shell, the adhesion of particles is prevented by their intensive movement relative to each other when leaving the chamber. Examples of implementation of the method. Example 1. Prepare an aqueous suspension of the coloring composition, for which the mixer is first fed with liquid glass pl. 1.25-1.30 g / cm 3 in the amount of 0.1 wt.% And water in the amount of 2.0 wt. % of the granular material and mix them for 5-7 minutes. In the resulting solution add a coloring matter in the amount of 0.3 wt.% Of the material to be painted and continue stirring for another 3-5 minutes until a uniform, uniformly colored suspension is obtained. The prepared suspension of the coloring matter (2.4 wt%) and the granular material to be colored (97.6 wt%) are fed into a cylindrical chamber moving at a frequency of 700 rpm around a circle whose diameter is 0.2 of the inner diameter of the chamber, and produce joint processing of granular material and coloring suspension for 1-4 minutes. The colored granular material is unloaded from the chamber, dried if necessary and packed in a container. Example 2. Technology for dyeing granular material - according to example 1. In this case, PVA (polyvinyl acetate emulsion) in an amount of 0.5 wt.% And water in an amount of 2.9 wt. Are taken as an adhesive for preparing a suspension. % of granular material. A coloring matter is added to the resulting aqueous solution in an amount of 1.2 wt% of the material to be painted, and the combined processing of the granular material (95.4 wt%) and the coloring suspension (4.6 wt%) is carried out by moving the cylindrical chamber with a frequency of 500 rpm in a circle, the diameter of which is 0.4 of the inner diameter of the chamber. Example 3. Technology - as in example 1, but an acrylic emulsion (1.0 wt.%) Is used as an adhesive, and water is added in an amount of 5 wt. %. A dye is added to the prepared aqueous solution of the adhesive in an amount of 2.0 wt%, and the combined processing of the granular material (92.0 wt%) and the aqueous suspension of the dye (8.0 wt%) is carried out in a chamber moving with a frequency 300 rpm in a circle, the diameter of which is 0.6 of the inner diameter of the chamber. The use of the proposed technical solution outside the stated conditions for dyeing the granular material does not allow achieving this goal. The test results of the colored granular material obtained by the proposed method are shown in the table. The proposed method for dyeing granular material can significantly improve the quality of dyeing granular material with a minimum consumption of dye. The colored coating formed on the surface of the grain is characterized by continuity and increased abrasion resistance. The method is suitable for dyeing granular materials of any fraction: from fine sand to a coarse filler, and the introduction of the coloring matter into the painted composition in the form of an aqueous suspension ensures the most economical consumption of the coloring agent with its extremely uniform distribution on the surface of the material being processed.
Claim
A method for dyeing a granular material by feeding and joint processing of a material and a dye composition in a cylindrical chamber, characterized in that the processing is carried out by moving the chamber with the material at a frequency of 300-700 rpm around a circle whose diameter is 0.2-0.6 of the inner diameter cameras, and the coloring composition is fed into the camera in the form of a suspension containing 0.3-2.0 wt. % coloring matter, 0.1-1.0 wt. % adhesive and 2.0-5.0 wt. % of water from the painted material.
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