How to make it
6 steps. Tap one when it's done.
Wet paint, a shake of table salt, and by the time it dries you've got a night sky full of stars you didn't paint. It looks like a trick and it's really just salt being thirsty.
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Nothing sharp, nothing hot, nowhere far. Tell someone what you're up to, then go ahead and do it on your own.
6 steps. Tap one when it's done.
Salt pulls water toward itself. Each grain sucks the wet paint out of the paper around it, and the colour follows the water, leaving a pale ring. When the salt comes off, the ring stays.
On a clear night, away from Sarnia's lights, the real Milky Way is visible from most of the county. Paint what you saw.