Pagan Parenting~Magickal Sand Painting and Bath Salts to Make With Your Little Witchlings

Magical Sand Painting Spell Craft & Charged Bath Salts
I love doing Spell Crafts. The only thing better than doing Spell Crafts - is doing Spell Crafts with my kids. (Well, to be honest, I like doing any crafts! There is something so great about doing Magick and Ritual with kids. They bring such wonder and delight to the whole process.

The spell craft that I want to share with you is excellent to do by yourself, or with children. I have done both with great fun and effect. I had first learned it at camp as a child, when we studied the Navajo sand painting. Then as a college student, I had the pleasure of watching professional artist creating sand paintings on the Plaza in Arcata, California. After that, I became fascinated with the art that was created to be destroyed. Years later, after reading about it in Scott Cunningham and David Harrington’s book, Spell Crafts; I realized the Magickal applications, and began to utilize them for myself.

So, it was no surprise, when one day I was racking my brain for ideas to keep my young kids occupied; that I remembered the joy of sand painting. However, since colored sand in expensive and a process to make, I like to use the salt method. Besides, the salt has more uses than the sand.

We packed two Magickal projects into one, and made healing bath salts, as gifts; and a happy home spell at the same time! The process is simple, but can be made as complex as one desires. The sand painting can be used as a part of a larger working. I have also read and heard of people collecting special sands from their travels for such rituals, or even crushing gemstones to gather the ‘sand’ for this purpose.

We used:

~Epsom Salt
~Food Coloring
~Lavender Essential Oil
~Sweet Orange Essential Oil
~Sterilized Starbucks Frappuccino Bottles
~A piece of White Poster Board

[This project can also be done on a clean floor, swept up after the ritual, and stored it a clean, white cloth as a Talisman.]

There are many symbols, runes and pictures that one could imaggine; but we kept it simple, as the kids were 3 and 7 respectively.

First, we mixed our salts with the colors, and scents in large Ziploc bags. (The kids love this part!)

Then, we charged each bag for the purposes of health. (the blue colored, Lavender scented salt); and happiness,(the yellow colored, Sweet Orange scented salt.)

We filled the bottles, for the bath salts.

Then made our pictures on the poster board by snipping a hole in the bottom corner of the bags to pour.

I drew the outline of our house; and my daughter and son made a happy face inside.

We blessed the bath salt bottles and the salt painting with sprays of mist for the Water Element, incense smoke for Fire and Air, and passed a quartz crystal over them all for Earth.

Then we then danced around to a silly little chant that I made up about keeping us healthy, happy and safe.

The whole process took about 15-20 minutes; which is perfect for little kiddos with very short attention spans.

When you do it by yourself, it is nice to take your time and make a real meditation out of it.

When we were finished, I capped the bottles, and funneled the salt from the poster board picture into their bath. That way they got to try out their bath salts, and they absorbed the healing, loving energies from the ritual.

They loved it. And we gave the bath salts to the grandmas with labels on them telling what they were, and who had made them. All in all, it was a very nice project. Actually,

I think it is one we should repeat soon!

The purposes can be adjusted for virtually anything, as can you create various chants to go with it. It can be to remove something, alter something, protect something or even to acquire something. The possibities are as endless as your imagination. Enjoy!

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***READER NOTE***

Hey everyone~

I have a Homemaking and Organizing post that I would like to share with you. I wrote it for Crafty Chick‘s Retro Fantasy. It is part of a new series that I am going to add to that blog, called the Domestic Goddess Files. (But for th record, I am more of a Domestic Goddess in training, myself! The proverbial 'Work in Progress'. Ha!)

If any of you think it is something you might be interested in, please drop on by and check it out. Crafty Chick’s Retro Fantasy at http://craftychick1221@blogspot.com/ .

Bye all, and have a great day. ~Danae