Chalk plus driveway plus kids is fun, fun, fun

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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