Make Your Own Sidewalk Chalk
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup Plaster of Paris ($5 for a big container)
- 1 cup water
- Powdered tempera paint ($5 for a large container too)
- Mold for chalk (small paper cups, ice cube trays, tissue rolls, plastic easter egg). We actually used flavor ice plastic popsicle packets that my kids ate 5 minutes before! I rinsed them out and they worked just fine!
- Mixing bowl or ziploc baggie and spoon or paint stirrer.
Instructions
- Mix the water and Plaster of Paris together in a large bowl or ziploc baggie. I actually used the ziploc baggie and it worked great to pour into the molds.
- Add the powdered tempera paint to the mixture.
- Once the paint has been mixed in well, set it aside for a few minutes. FYI – it will still be runny but that’s how it’s supposed to be.
- Pour the mixture (yeap, it’s runny while you’re doing this part) into the mold and let it dry. The drying time will vary depending on how large your mold is (the larger it is, the longer it will take). With the ziploc baggie, I just cut a little section at the corner, like is done when a baggie full of icing is used to ice a cake. It was a little messy but was a lot easier to squirt into our popsicle packets.
- Once the mold is dry (around 2-4 hours), remove the chalk. If the chalk is still moist, let it air dry for another day. I used an exacto knife and cut the edge of the popsicle packet – it popped right out!
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