Homemade DIY Outside Chalk Paint recipe that is perfect for allowing kids to get creative outdoors! Plus, you can make your own recipe with as many fun colors as your kids want to enjoy all spring and summer long.
DIY Outside Chalk Paint
If you’re looking for a DIY chalk paint recipe that the kids can use on your sidewalk, then you are going to love this one.
The best part about this chalk paint recipe is that you can really create amazing bright colors easily!
My girls love going outside and creating fun art and I love the fact that the paint is easy to clean off.
This chalk paint recipe is perfect for spring, summer, and for some outdoor crafting!
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NOTE: I haven’t been able to update the photos of this post, but the recipe is still fantastic to make! It’s amazing what a DSLR camera can do for photos!
Why Make Your Own Chalk Paint For Kids
There are many reasons that you may want to make your own chalk paint for your kids to enjoy outdoors.
For us, it came to our daughter’s sensitive skin.
Our oldest daughter is a little artist and loves to paint, but had a hard time using regular chalk because of her eczema.
That’s when I decided to make this recipe for her to be able to paint with outside.
Plus, you are able to make any color you want with this recipe and as much as you want.
Ingredients Needed To Make Paint Chalk For Kids
- 1/2 cup of cornstarch
- 1/2 cup of water
- Gel food coloring
- Individual containers or cupcake/muffin tin
- Paintbrushes
How To Make DIY Chalk Paint For Kids
- In a bowl or container mix together your cornstarch and water.
- Mix until everything is dissolved.
- Pour a little bit of your cornstarch mixture into separate containers or cupcake tin. Our mixture made enough for 6 different colors.
- Add 1-2 drops of gel food coloring into each individual container or cupcake tin.
- Mix with a spoon, careful to clean your spoon before mixing another color. We used gel food coloring because the colors come out brighter than using liquid food coloring.
- Head outside with some paintbrushes and let your artists go to town!
How To Store Homemade Chalk Paint
The best way to store your homemade chalk paint is in a plastic airtight container with a lid.
This makes sure that the paint doesn’t harden or dry quickly.
If you are making a larger batch I suggest also pouring out small amounts of the paint into containers for the kids to use.
This way the paint doesn’t all get dirty and mixed with the other colors.
How To Clean Chalk Paint
One of my favorite things about this chalk paint recipe is that if it rains it gets washed away.
To clean just spray the water hose over the paint and watch it wash away.
It’s made with cornstarch and water, so it’s easily cleaned from bricks and sidewalks.
Now, coming off little kids’ hands, that’s another story!
My girls love making handprints, so they ended up painting their feet and hands.
No big deal really, but remember food coloring stains, so they walked around with purple and pink hands for a few days.
Creating This Into A Science Lesson
This is the perfect activity to turn into a science and craft lesson for the kids.
You can show them how the cornstarch and water mix together to create the consistency of paint.
Then by adding the food coloring, you can change the color of the cornstarch.
Arts and Craft Outdoors
Using this recipe allow your kids to go outdoors on the sidewalk to create pictures and drawings.
It’s the perfect craft activity to take outside for some fresh air.
You will be surprised how much kids love being outdoors when they are given a little bit of fun creativity to use.
DIY Sidewalk Chalk Paint
Make your own sidewalk chalk paint recipe for the kids to enjoy at home!
Materials
- 1/2 cup of cornstarch
- 1/2 cup of water
- Gel food coloring
Tools
- Individual containers or cupcake/muffin tin
- Paintbrushes
Instructions
- In a bowl or container mix together your cornstarch and water.
- Mix until everything is dissolved.
- Pour a little bit of your chalk mixture into separate containers or cupcake tin. Our mixture made enough for 6 different colors.
- Add 1-2 drops of gel food coloring into each individual container or cupcake spots.
- Mix with a spoon, careful to clean your spoon before mixing another color.
- Head outside with some paintbrushes and let your artists go to town!
Notes
We used gel food coloring because the colors come out brighter than using liquid food coloring.
Some Of Our Favorite Chalk Paint Resources:
Melissa & Doug Standing Paint Brush
Do your kids love painting with chalk paint?
Saw this over at the HHM link up. I have been wanting to try this. It looks like a lot of fun! I know you said it stains hands, but what about the concrete?
Hi Danielle! No stains on our concrete 🙂 I actually forgot to wash it down with the hose like I promised the hubby I would (Ooops!), but it rained the next day and it all washed out 🙂
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This looks like some awesome fun!
Thanks Ashley!
The colors are so vibrant! Makes me wish we had some pavement around here to paint!
Thanks! We only have a bit in our back yard, but it’s enough for them 🙂
Isn’t it great when you can take the messy stuff outside? Chalk paint looks like a lot of fun!
Absolutely!! Thanks 🙂
This looks like some messy fun outdoor art supplies. Can’t wait to try it myself!
The messier the better.. right? 😉
Any idea if this will work with regular food coloring (not the gels)?
Hi Kayti! Yes, it will work the same 🙂 The only reason I use the gel is so that the colors would be brighter.