Chalk looks great on a variety of surfaces. Children can draw on the driveway, pavement, on your garden wall or even your house walls.
If your kids are a bit older, you can let them do their own thing when it comes to creating their masterpiece, but younger kids may need a bit of guidance.
Here are some easy-peasy ideas for ‘sidewalk’ chalk creations.
- Keep it simple and create rainbows and flowers to cheer up passers-by.
- Write messages such as ‘have a great day’ with a smiley face.
- Draw circles and fill them with different colours.
- Draw hopscotch squares and combine the art session with some good, old-fashioned games!
- Draw circles for a game of bean bag toss.
- Make a racetrack for toy cars, including a checkered flag.
- Make a treasure map.
- Draw planets and stars.
When your kids get creative, they just think they are having fun – but you know they are learning at the same time.
- Get them to experiment drawing on rough and smooth surfaces and see the difference it makes to their art.
- Draw different coloured circles, then call out the colour and they have to find the correct circle. Do the same with different shapes, numbers, and letters.
- Draw a ‘tightrope’ to practise balancing.
- Trace their bodies and then label each part such as head, foot etc. For older kids you could get them to add the internal organs!
- For younger children, using chalk is a fun way to practise writing their name.
And as a bonus, unlike an indoor painting session, all you need to clean up is a hose (or let the weather do it for you!)
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