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Today the children were exploring rain and the goal was to make a rainy day picture with chalk…
First they were to create a picture with the chalk and then sprinkle some water, like rain, on top of the chalk drawing…
The children were interested in making the rain but they were not grasping how the rain (water) made any difference on the chalk. Part of the reason was because they hadn’t used enough of the chalk to cover the entire paper…
So the children were losing interest quickly until it was suggested that they try dipping their chalk in the water and then drawing with the wet chalk…
After dipping the chalk into the water, the colors on the paper were much more vibrant. The children noticed an immediate difference and this was now becoming an interesting activity to explore…
The children wanted to try each of the colors and part of the fun was dipping the colored chalk into the water…
So our rainy day pictures actually turned out to be more like “chalk in rain puddle” pictures!
Check out this cloudy day activity!
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Hi Deborah,
Love to do this as a fun outdoor activity, too. Sometimes I let the children spray their chalk drawings with water. I have to monitor this closely so we don’t get soggy pictures! This makes some beautiful Easter eggs to decorate the bulletin board. They also enjoy using dried up markers, dipping them in water and “painting” with them at the easel!
All fabulous ideas! Perhaps you can draw on the concrete and spray that:) Of course, then they can’t very well go home – unless you could press a piece of paper on top and make a print… Hmmm, you got me thinking!
This looks like fun and timely for spring. We’ve done wet chalk painting on our sidewalk, but haven’t tried it on paper yet.
The children really seemed to like it:)
I love how bright the chalk looks when it’s wet. Hopefully our snow will melt someday and we can get outside to do this. I’ll have to try it on paper for now
I am so tired of snow – it is supposed to be spring! Bring it on!!