Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe: It’s Ridiculously Easy

Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe: So Simple & Easy, you'll wonder why it took you so long to try it!I don’t want to make any undue assumptions, but if you’re anything like me, there are a LOT of crafts & activities on Pinterest that you see and think, gee, that looks really easy & simple! I should try that sometime with the kids! And then you go about with your life, and you end up not doing it because hauling everything out of the cupboards just seems like so much more work than sitting on the front porch, watching the kids skin their knees on the driveway.

If you ARE like me, though, then you might just enjoy things like painting and colouring with sidewalk chalk almost as much as the kiddos do. So, here’s the cool part about this Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe: there are only 3 ingredients (all of which you probably have in your kitchen RIGHT NOW), it takes LITERALLY 3 minutes to put together, and it’s really fun to play with. For real. I just put the kids down for a nap, and I kept painting for a while. 
Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe... ridiculously easy summer fun.See that? It really is simple. In the event that the picture above is not clear, here’s the sidewalk chalk paint recipe:

Sidewalk Chalk Paint
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Ingredients
  1. 1 cup water
  2. 1 cup cornstarch
  3. Several different colours of food colouring
Instructions
  1. Mix water and cornstarch together until smooth.
  2. Divide mixture into several different containers.
  3. Add several drops of colouring to each container.
  4. Stir.
Notes
  1. You can make as much or as little as you want, as long as you use equal parts water & cornstarch!
  2. As the mixture sits, the cornstarch settles to the bottom. We've used the paint from one day to the next (when we actually HAD some that wasn't used up in 1 afternoon!), but past that, it will just dry out. Cover when not using.
  3. It's a pretty messy activity and it DOES have food colouring in it - so if your food colouring doesn't wash out of clothes well, put the kids into play clothes and let them go at it.
  4. Since the ingredients are all out of your kitchen, it's safe for the kids to consume - but I'd recommend that they wait for their snack, since it'd probably taste better.
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Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe: Paint on Porches, Driveways, Sidewalks, & Houses:: just water, cornstarch, & foodcolouring!Can’t get enough of the splatter paint movement from the 80’s/90’s? This paint is really fun to play with. I think my neighbours thought I was nuts, but it’s a great way to let out pent-up energy!! 🙂 
Sidewalk_Chalk_Paint_splatterI suppose that the only thing left to say is that as the paint dries, the colours become more brilliant – they tend to look a little watery at first.
Sidewalk Chalk Recipe: costs pennies on the dollar for sidewalk chalk that you'd buy!
Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe: It gets messy, but doesn't everything that's fun??

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Jenn vanOosten

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, and love my city. I'm a Netflixer, choral music geek, bookworm, inventor of recipes (I take Artistic Licence on EVERYTHING that I make), wife of one, mother of two, and owner of a neurotic Schnauzer. I respect people who respect others. I love good food that's well done, but my favourite lunch is KD & hotdogs. With ketchup. I'm addicted to Clearance Shopping. I will ALWAYS get the product that I want at the price that I want, eventually.

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