Homemade Sea Salt

Make sea salt with your kids the next time you go to the beach. Not only is it fun, but it also doubles as a sneaky science lesson too! As with most Savvy Nest posts, we did try this and it was a huge hit.

• Collect ocean water and pour into a dutch oven, using cheesecloth or a T-shirt to strain out impurities.
• Boil the water on the stovetop until it resembles a slurry.
• Bake the slurry in the oven in a shallow dish at 200* until completely dry. 

For testing purposes, we used 1 gallon of sea water. It took about 2 hours to boil down and about 2 hours to dry in the oven. One gallon of sea water yielded about 1 cup of salt.