You only need a few ingredients to make this homemade chalk, and it is sure to keep the littles busy for a bit. Read on for the full activity tutorial.
Making spray chalk is super easy, and all the mess washes away after play. Squeezing the spray bottles is also great for fine-motor-development. For more ways to play with chalk be sure to visit our chalk play collection.
How to Make Spray Chalk for Kids
Materials
Optional: Fill a few squirt bottles with vinegar so that you can make your artwork erupt!
Method
- Begin by filling spray bottles 1/3 of the way with a baking soda and corn starch mixture, using roughly equal amounts of both ingredients.
- Add several drops of food coloring to each bottle, rotating colors as desired.
- Then, fill them with very warm water.
- Use a butter knife or similar to stir the mixture as best you can, and then place the spouts on and shake the bottles well.
- You will want to shake the bottles once more just before play, as some of the corn starch will likely settle at the bottom of the bottles.
- That's it! It is now time to play!
I love how easy this chalk is to make, and using spray bottles instead of squirt bottles makes the paint last much longer. Squeezing the bottles is also great for developing kids tiny hand muscles.
Rosie and Jewel had a blast making colorful art all over the pavement. Then, once they tired of that I gave them squirt bottles of vinegar so that they could make their artwork ERUPT!
Not a bad way to spend a summer day!
Extend the Fun: Give kids stencils like these so that they can make patterned spray art on the pavement.
A Few Tips:
- If your squirt bottle nozzles are clogging that may mean the bottles inner tubing is touching the bottom of the squirt bottle. To fix this simply snip a small piece of the tubing off so that it isn't sitting in the residual corn starch and getting clogged.
- You can get spray bottles online here. The squirt bottles we use can be found online here.
- I recommend wearing play clothes during this activity, as food coloring can stain. You could also use washable watercolors in place of food coloring.
More Chalk Activities for Kids
- Glow-in-the-Dark Chalk
- Squirty Chalk
- Sidewalk Smoke Bombs
- Ice Chalk Recipe
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