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Playing Outside: Chalk

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Playing Outside with Chalk

This is the time of year when many of our family’s spend time playing outside. Whether it is early in the morning or late in the afternoon in warmer climates or all day long in cooler ones.

Children need to time to play and explore the world outside their homes. The fresh air and the sunshine do them good in my opinion. Because I believe that statement I am going to co-host a series this summer called Playing Outside with a number of wonderful bloggers. Today posts on chalk sometimes called sidewalk chalk begins the series there will be linked up for posts on playing outside with water in July and one on outdoor games in August.

This month’s co-hosts are  Reading Confetti, Rainy Day Mum, The Iowa Farmer’s Wife, JDaniel4’s Mom, T Kitchen Counter Chronicles, and the Inspiration Laboratories. 

This series is open to anyone desiring to share an activity that involves children playing outside with chalk. The link you share does not have to be recent. We are hoping to end up with a wonderful collection of activities that be the done with children while playing with sidewalk chalk, because of that recent as well as loved activities from the past are all welcome.

 

 

What did we do with sidewalk chalk?

Drawing with Chalk Under a Tree
Using Chalk Under a Tree

We setup JDaniel’s easel under a tree in the front yard. It was a cool place to draw pictures and stay out of the sun.

Giant Chalk Letters on a Fence

Drawing with Chalk on a Fence

Gigantic chalk letters on the fence in our backyard were great fun to draw on and spray with water. The idea was that JDaniel could trace the letters with water. He decided it was just fun to spray them.

When we were done, the letters came off when we rubbed them with a wet rag.

Chalk Number Line in Driveway
Outdoor Fun for Kids

Hopping on a number line in your driveway is a lot of fun. Driving over the numbers one at a time with your bike and calling out the number you are driving over proved to be even more fun.

Drawing a Bike Over a Chalk Number Line

 

Sorting Object in Colored Chalk Circles
Sorting Colored Chalk

 

We have treasures on a shelf in the garage and in JDaniel’s water table. After drawing colored circles in the driveway, JDaniel gathered objects that matched the color of the circles we drew.

I can’t wait to see what you have been creating with sidewalk chalk.

 

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  2. What a great theme for a linky! I love your giant letters on the fence. I think we’ll try that. My son would love it.

  3. What fun ideas, and I really like the riding over the numbers and calling them out!

  7. We spent many an hour drawing away with sidewalk chalk when my children were younger. One day they all traced themselves and my driveway looked like a crime scene!

  12. We LOVE sidewalk chalk! From working on our letters and shapes to tracing shadows! fun times!

  13. You are such a great Mommy! I love this! What a fun link up you have developed!

  15. Spending time outside is so important for children, and I’m not sure they get enough of that these days.

    And sidewalk chalk is something my grandkids particularly love!

    =)

  17. Could not agree more, wonderful post! I just said to the kids to go outside and play. We are all going to get some fresh air, and get creative.

  22. I am so glad you included how to get the chalk off the fence. I let my 3 year old draw all over our front porch railing the other day and have been wondering how I was going to get it off.

  23. So many great ideas linked up already! I will be adding one soon. Great idea for a linky!

  26. i love this – thank you! I am wanting to get my little boy started playing with chalk and there are some great ideas here (we don’t have pavement)

  27. What great fun and so many ideas…i linked up an oldy but the twins still have so much fun with their outdoor chalkboard!

  28. OMG! I love these ideas, especially the big letters on the fence. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas!

  29. My boys LOVE playing with sidewalk chalk. They do a lot of what you mention above but my older son has taken to drawing elaborate cityscapes (we live in NYC) and subway tracks. Then takes his cars and subway trains on various adventures. He can do this for hours. He also draws parking lots for his younger brother to park his cars in. It’s really sweet!

  30. Visiting from SITS. Bookmarked you so I can participate in some of your link ups. I saw recipes on pinterest the other day to make your own chalk. What a fun blog.

  31. I love the chalk writing on the fence – that looks like so much fun!

  32. So fun!! I love all of these ideas, my girls ADORE sidewalk chalk & I’m always looking for new ideas. Thanks for the awesome suggestions! 🙂

  34. Just popping back again to say thanks for linking this up to the Weekly Kid’s Co-op. I’m going to be featuring this on my blog tomorrow as one of my favourites from this week’s link-up.

  35. Lots of great ideas for using chalk outside! Thanks for linking up to Thinky Linky Thursday!
    Lori @ Cachey Mama’s Classroom

  37. Just popping by to let you know that I am featuring this as part of my Kids Co-Op post this week! So many fun ideas involving chalk here!

  38. Wonderful set of outdoor chalk fun. I really have to do some more of these. My kids would really like the water squirting. Right. If it is sunny.. we WILL do this!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy & Alissa

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