A friend of mine told about a fun, easy recipe to make your own sidewalk chalk and I just had to try it. Gloria and Landon had a blast with this. The recipe is easy but just to warn you, it ends up being more like paint....so fun to use though!
All you need to make this is some water, corn starch, food coloring and a muffin tin. No cooking involved, SO EASY!
Mix together 1 cup of water and 1 cup of cornstarch
Poor a little bit into each of the holes in the muffin tin. I was able to fill 9 of them about 1/2 way.
After you have them filled up, add your food coloring to each hole to desired color.
Take it outside with some paint brushes and have fun :-)
The cornstarch does settle so be sure to STIR each color well pretty much every time you are using it. you will feel the thickness and notice a difference it how it works.
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| This was after we added the food coloring, we left one white. |
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| Landon's happy little face after he made his first mark on the sidewalk. |
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| My little artist, she adored this! |
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| Making a butterfly. I need to invest in some bigger paint brushes. I highly recommend BIGGER paint brushes for this project. I only had my tiny little ones, made making these big drawings much more time consuming. |
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| Gloria's butterfly. They loved how it went on really wet and dried like chalk. It was pretty cool and so pretty! |
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| Landon's masterpiece |
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| Landon decided it was cool to paint his arm too. It WAS actually really neat. It would run down his arm all liquidy and then dry like chalk, he enjoyed watching the change happen. |
We will definitely be doing this project many more times this summer!
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