From making your own sidewalk chalk and sidewalk paint recipes to creating obstacle courses, play areas, and educational games, you're sure to find a few sidewalk chalk activities that your little ones will enjoy.
Sidewalk Chalk Ideas and Recipes
To start things off, we'll share three incredible sidewalk chalk recipes that we've made here at Messy Little Monster. From chunky chalk to fizzy paint, you're going to love our super simple recipes for bold, colourful chalk.
Fizzy Sidewalk Chalk Paint
Make some outdoor art that packs a little fizz! Our Fizzy Sidewalk Chalk Paint is sure to get kids excited about simple science projects, like baking soda and vinegar reactions. First, you'll paint your beautiful designs using our baking soda-based sidewalk chalk paint, and then you'll apply the vinegar solution to watch it fizz. It's so fun!
3-Ingredient Sidewalk Chalk Paint
Forget complicated paint recipes. Our 3-Ingredient Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe is the only one you'll need to make gorgeous and vibrant outdoor art this summer that washes away with a bit of water. It's so easy to mix up lots of colours in no time flat.
How to Make Sidewalk Chalk
If you prefer sidewalk chalk instead of paint, we can teach you How to Make Sidewalk Chalk. This chunky chalk is easy for little hands to work with. Plus, the kids can help you make it, which will make your sidewalk art all the more fun.
Fun Sidewalk Chalk Ideas for Kids
Find even more awesome ways to make and play with sidewalk chalk below!
Shadow Art
Go outdoors on a sunny day, and help the kids trace their shadows and fill it in with bright, beautiful colours. This Shadow Art activity by Rhythms of Play is a creative way to learn about shadow science, including how and why shadows form.
Chalk Sight Word Game
Preschoolers, kindergarteners, and even older children can all benefit from this Chalk Sight Word Game by The Educator's Spin On It. Simple sight words are terrific for preschoolers, while older children can work on more difficult sight words or vocabulary words that they need to remember.
Chalk Puzzles
These Chalk Puzzles from Happily Ever Mom are a different way to enjoy sidewalk chalk. Lay out your blocks to trace them, and then build them into their 3D counterparts. You'll find so many ways to experiment with this activity.
Sidewalk Chalk Mosaic
This stunning Sidewalk Chalk Mosaic from Down Redbud Drive will brighten your driveway or sidewalk for all to see. It's much easier than it looks. Simply apply painter's tape or masking tape in different geometric patterns, and then get to work with your chalk. Once the chalk work is done, remove the tape, and you're left with a beautiful mosaic that looks like stained glass.
Chalkboard Slime Recipe
Use chalk markers or your own sidewalk chalk recipes to paint on this Chalkboard Slime Recipe by Little Bins for Little Hands. The chalk colours look absolutely stunning against the black background of the slime.
Sidewalk Chalk Activities to Teach Chinese
Want to help your kids learn a foreign language? Chalk Academy's Sidewalk Chalk Activities to Teach Chinese are just brilliant. You'll find hopscotch, footprints, action words, spraying with water, and so much more.
Chalk Shadow Drawings
These Chalk Shadow Drawings by Still Playing School are such fun. Draw silly faces on the sidewalk and then move around into various positions until the shadow of your head lands on the drawn faces. The more ridiculous, the better!
Recycled Chalk Paint
Do you have pieces of sidewalk chalk that are now too small to use? Did you leave some out in the rain, and now they're water-soaked? Turn those into Recycled Chalk Paint using the instructions from Rhythms of Play.
Pictionary Sidewalk Chalk Activity
Take your game of Pictionary outdoors. This Sidewalk Chalk Pictionary by Super God, Not Super Mom includes printable cards to draw from, but instead of drawing them on paper, you'll draw them on the sidewalk or driveway instead. It's a great game to play with the neighbour kids, too!
Outdoor Math Game
Take math outdoors; you'll be surprised at how it can invigorate an ordinary lesson on numbers. This Sidewalk Chalk Outdoor Math Game by Look, We're Learning is proof of that. Kids can fit in some simple addition or subtraction practice while getting in a bit of movement, too. Of course, you can change this out with multiplication or division for older children.
Sidewalk Chalk Puddles
When winter comes, and the weather is a bit dreary, it's a perfect time to go outdoors with your sidewalk chalk. The snow makes an ideal canvas for Sidewalk Chalk Puddles. This activity by Lemon Lime Adventures adds lots of colour and fun to a winter day!
Sidewalk Chalk Popsicles
Kids will get a kick out of making Sidewalk Chalk Popsicles for summer. These chalk popsicles by Hello, Wonderful would make fun party favours for a summer party.
Sidewalk Chalk Obstacle Course
Here's a fun idea to get the kids up and moving! The Sidewalk Chalk Obstacle Course from Toot's Mom is Tired is easy to set up, and the kids will play there for hours. What a neat way to encourage gross motor activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Even older kids will love joining in.
Sidewalk Chalk Bugs
You can also pour your sidewalk chalk mixture into cute molds to make all sorts of different shapes, like these Sidewalk Chalk Bugs from Finding Zest. Aren't they adorable?
Chalk Outdoor Imaginary Play
Don't forget the simple ways to play with chalk. Nurture Store's post on Outdoor Imaginary Play with Chalk reminds us that simple drawing a road (or a park or a game board) is a fun, low-prep activity that's perfect for any sunny day outside.
Puffy Sidewalk Paint
Use your leftover sidewalk chalk remnants to make this Puffy Sidewalk Paint recipe from The Best Ideas for Kids. Each batch will fill up a small squeeze bottle, which is the perfect applicator for this type of paint to get clean lines that are puffy and gorgeous.
Scented Sidewalk Chalk Paint
This Scented Sidewalk Chalk Paint by Parenting Chaos adds a fun sensory element to your usual chalk paintings. It gets its scent from Kool-Aid, but you could also add a couple of drops of essential oils to your own favourite chalk paint recipe to make yours scented.
Which of these sidewalk chalk ideas are you going to try this summer? Pin this list so you'll have it handy when you want to go outdoors to create something fun!
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