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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts / Painting With Water to Make Chalkboard Art

     

    Painting With Water to Make Chalkboard Art

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    I know you are always looking for simple, low mess activities for the kids that keep them busy and will help them let loose their creativity.

    I have the answer!

    Plus, here's a bonus for you: it will get their bodies moving.

    Chalkboard art with water painting

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    What you need: 

    • Super active, creative and wonderful kid
    • paintbrush
    • water
    • chalkboard. Since we live in an apartment, we have a simple easel like this one set up for spontaneous art projects.

    Can you figure it out yet? Water creates wonderful, temporary pictures or designs. Kids get to watch their art appear and reappear before their very eyes.  My son spent an excessively long time doing this and I think this photo above demonstrates his enthusiasm better than I can describe with words!

    Don't go yet.  Here's another idea!

    Alternative water art painting project

    What you need:

    • Pavement
    • Active kid
    • Paintbrush or sponge
    • Sidewalk chalk (optional)

    If you can, get outside to paint with water on the pavement–sidewalks, driveways, patios–wherever! Watch the sun dry up your drawings, or wash it away yourself with a spray of the hose. Alternatively, kids can draw with sidewalk chalk and then paint it away with water!


    More active art ideas:

    • Painting with marbles
    • Painting on the windows
    • Shaken container painting
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    1. Sherry says

      April 01, 2009 at 1:38 pm

      Oh yes! Thanks for jogging the old memory! G has a hanging chalkboard but hasn't touch it for months--I'm sure a jar of water would be just the trick to entice him back to it. 🙂

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    2. Jana says

      January 20, 2013 at 9:36 pm

      YES!! My kids LOVE this activity. So simple and so wonderful. They also enjoy painting the wood fence with water in the summer. It turns a nice shade darker, very satisfying. Plus, no clean up makes me pretty darn happy!

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      • Mom and Kiddo says

        January 21, 2013 at 6:37 am

        I love the fence idea! Sadly, we have only a fire escape and no yard. 🙂 But it would be fun to take to the park and paint all over the paths!

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