Outdoor Chalk Activities

Megan Snethen Author

05/27/2020 Added

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Chalk activities are always a fun way to express creativity. By adding water to the activity, children can practice tracing letters, which promotes early literacy, experiment with color mixing and cause and effect! The options are limitless, and all you need is a few supplies! Get out and share your chalk art! Length: 5:47; 2-8 years

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[00:00:00.136](upbeat music)
[00:00:11.320]Hi, everyone, hope you're having a beautiful day today.
[00:00:14.000]Today I'm gonna be showing you two different activities
[00:00:16.420]that you can go with chalk.
[00:00:17.640]So the first one is chalk painting,
[00:00:19.630]and the second one is letter tracing.
[00:00:22.970]For this activity, you'll need some cups filled with water,
[00:00:26.910]some chalk, these are some of my favorite colors,
[00:00:28.890]these bright colors right here,
[00:00:30.330]and also some types of kind of paintbrushes.
[00:00:32.650]So I have a regular one and a foam one.
[00:00:36.220]I also have two different sizes of paintbrushes.
[00:00:39.237](bird chirping)
[00:00:40.645](upbeat music)
[00:00:45.880]I'm gonna be showing you how to do chalk painting.
[00:00:47.940]So the materials that you'll need
[00:00:49.940]are just a paintbrush and some water.
[00:00:52.930]So I have my water ready, and I also drew this flower here
[00:00:56.150]I'm gonna fill in using the water.
[00:00:58.220]So first I have my bigger foam paintbrush
[00:01:00.593]that I'm gonna dip into it.
[00:01:03.210]And then I'm just gonna take it over my flower
[00:01:05.490]and color in the petals with the water.
[00:01:09.440]Cool. Look I colored one in.
[00:01:14.327]Now I color the second one in.
[00:01:22.240]Ooh, I got some extra pink there.
[00:01:23.510]It might be kind of hard to see through the video.
[00:01:26.750]Okay. Look at my water's kind of turning that pink color.
[00:01:39.150]Hope I can get it colored before it all dries.
[00:01:47.630]One more petal.
[00:01:51.880](gasps) Look! My flower's all colored in with the water.
[00:01:58.120]You know what would be really cool
[00:01:59.660]is that if you just took your paintbrush,
[00:02:03.460]dunked it in the water and then just drew something
[00:02:06.450]random with it.
[00:02:08.878](sighs) Know it's kind of hard to see.
[00:02:11.220]I'm just drawing a pattern here.
[00:02:14.490]What if you drew maybe like a smiley face?
[00:02:18.110]Two eyes, that big smile.
[00:02:21.755](sighs) I can't wait to see what you create.
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[00:02:31.840]So I'm gonna use one of my paintbrushes.
[00:02:34.270]I'm gonna start with this one first.
[00:02:36.020]It's a little bit wider,
[00:02:37.480]and then I'm gonna dip it into the water
[00:02:39.110]to get it all nice and wet.
[00:02:40.950]Do you see how I did that?
[00:02:42.780]Now that I know that it's wet,
[00:02:44.480]I'm gonna go over to some of the letters that I drew.
[00:02:46.640]See, I wrote some the alphabet
[00:02:49.460]and my name, and then I also drew
[00:02:52.040]some flowers over here too.
[00:02:54.520]But now that my paintbrush is all wet,
[00:02:57.718]gonna dip it in one more time.
[00:02:59.050]Going to come to my letters,
[00:03:01.683]and I'm gonna trace it to see what happens.
[00:03:04.776]Might need a little bit more.
[00:03:09.230]Wow, look at that.
[00:03:11.720]What do you notice that's happening?
[00:03:16.260]My chalk got a little bit thinner,
[00:03:18.510]but you know what's cool is that all around my letter
[00:03:21.530]I can see where the water was,
[00:03:23.870]and that was really, really cool.
[00:03:28.580]All right, I'm gonna do it for my other letters now.
[00:03:30.670]Let's do A. Ready?
[00:03:34.717](sighs) Look at this!
[00:03:37.920]You're practicing writing your letters.
[00:03:42.220]You could try this with other words, random letters.
[00:03:48.090]Maybe you can try even your name.
[00:03:50.030]I'll do that next.
[00:03:52.550]I like to keep getting my brush wet,
[00:03:54.210]so that I can really see where the water was.
[00:03:57.654]Now I'm gonna move down to my name.
[00:04:00.730]Here we go, I'm gonna practice writing my name next.
[00:04:04.860]Okay, here's M. (gasps) Wow!
[00:04:09.870]Up, down. (gasps) Look at my paintbrush
[00:04:13.070]is even changing colors too.
[00:04:16.200]Gotta rinse it off a little bit, get more water on it.
[00:04:19.533]Now let's do E. (gasps) Straight line
[00:04:22.340]and loop-d-loop.
[00:04:24.830]G. All right, G has the circle
[00:04:29.480]and a hook.
[00:04:32.290]Cool! A is next.
[00:04:35.910]I did a lower case A, do you see it?
[00:04:39.870]Another circle and then a kickstand.
[00:04:44.910]And that's the last letter in my name.
[00:04:47.630]Make a nice straight line and one hump.
[00:04:53.610]Cool, look at that!
[00:04:55.840]I must have gotten water on some of these other spots.
[00:04:58.040]But look at that.
[00:04:59.330]I worked so hard to trace all of those letters.
[00:05:05.150]Letter tracing can also be adapted for younger children too,
[00:05:07.890]so you can use this to maybe trace different shapes
[00:05:10.830]or different lines, you know, squiggly lines,
[00:05:12.950]straight lines, whatever they would like.
[00:05:16.080]This is just a really good adaptation for them too.
[00:05:18.910]Of course, if you have older children
[00:05:20.190]they can practice writing different names, words.
[00:05:24.450]Maybe they'd like to practice writing in cursive.
[00:05:27.460]I hope you just have fun with it.
[00:05:30.380]I hope that you have a beautiful day
[00:05:31.970]and have fun creating with chalk and water outside.
[00:05:35.050]Have so much fun.
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