Make Something Monday: Chalk Dust Art

This is a post straight from my children's art blog

Dilly-Dali Art

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Recently we were playing with sidewalk chalk and I noticed

it  sure does make a lot of dust,

we should play with the dust.

So that's exactly what we did!

I decided to turn this into a color mixing activity as well as a shape activity

Start with the 3 primary colors

make sure you press really hard,

you WANT to make dust,

layer another color on top.

You know

...red and yellow...

...red and blue...

...blue and yellow...

I set out plastic forks, spoons and knives

 for the girls to play with.

Forks made lovely lines in the dust,

just like a zen garden

Charlotte's tool of choice was a plastic Play-Doh knife

You can make whatever designs you like

then 

just rake them out and start over again!

The red and yellow weren't mixing well enough in my opinion,

 so I added more yellow

The more you play with the dust,

 the better it mixes together

We experimented with making prints in the raked dust

it makes a really neat 3-dimensional effect

I knew it was time to begin cleaning up when the girls started smearing the chalk

all over themselves

Just wash it all away

The mixed colors really show up when water is added

and since the kids are already going to need a bath

let them splash around a little

:)