10 Best DIY Water-Play Ideas for Kids
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Tiffany Doerr Guerzon
Liquid chalk paint
Get your creativity flowing with this water activity. For outdoor art that is a step above sidewalk chalk, try making your own liquid chalk paint. First, purchase jumbo-sized washable chalk from your local dollar store. Now you will need to break up the chalk into a powder by either putting the chalk into a sealed plastic bag and pulverizing it with a hammer (preschoolers will love doing this, with supervision, of course), or grate the chalk using the smallest holes of a cheese grater.
Add the powdered chalk to a food-storage container and mix in water. Mixing about one-half cup of water per jumbo size piece of chalk results in a nice consistency. You will have a few chunks, but the mixture should be mostly liquified. Repeat the process with various-colored chalk until you have several different colors of chalk paint, each in its own container. Give the kids paint brushes and let them paint the fence, a concrete porch or sidewalk, then turn the hose on their creation to wash them away and begin again.
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