Recommended Age: 3 years and onwards
Purpose: for the child to explore different painting mediums
Level of Parent Involvement: Low, mainly supervision
Prerequisites
- None
Materials
- Coloured chalk
- Mortar and pestle
- Water
- Small jug
- Paint brush
- Small cups for the different coloured paints made
Preparation
- None
Steps
- Invite the child letting them know that you are going to show them how to make chalk paint
- Bring the materials to the table, the child may help
- Name the materials (mortar and pestle, chalk etc)
- Let the child know that they need to put the chalk into the mortar and use the pestle to crush the chalk
- Take a piece of chalk
- Demonstrate how to move the pestle up and down to crush the chalk into a dust
- Transfer the dust into a cup
- Invite the child to pour a small amount of water from the jug into the cup
- The child may now use the paint brush to mix the dust into a smooth consistency
- The child may now take a different coloured piece of chalk and use the pestle to crush the chalk, making another coloured paint
- When finished, go with the child outside, bringing the chalk paint
- Invite the child to paint the concrete or another appropriate space outdoors (fence, deck etc)
- When finished you may show the child how to wash the chalk paint away or let the child know that when it rains the rain will remove the chalk paint
Variations
- None
