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January 22, 2015

Easy Cross Craft for Kids

Easy Easter Craft for Kids ~ Painting with Chalk and Water

Today we are revisiting a a super easy activity…painting with chalk and water!  Did you see our super easy Wet Chalk Drawing activity?  We love simple ideas that use things we already have at home.

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

Chalk is a versatile drawing medium.  We love drawing on sidewalks, chalkboards, paper and wood chips.  For a simple twist on a classic activity…just add water.  The texture of the chalk changes and if feels almost like you are painting.

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

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Materials Needed:

  • Colored Chalk ~ We used sidewalk chalk
  • Water
  • Painters Tape
  • Sturdy paper

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

Soak your chalk in a bowl of water.  Use the tape to create a cross shape on your paper.  encourage the kiddos to use the wet chalk to paint/color colorful designs on their paper.

Wet chalk has a consistency similar to paint and the colors will appear richer and deeper than dry chalk.   You kids will be intrigued when it glides smoothly across the paper leaving a beautiful thick paste.

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

Allow the chalk and paper are dry before gently removing the tape.  Wet paper rips easily, so try to remove the tape slowly to minimize and tearing.

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

This simple activity is perfect for kids of all ages.  Preschoolers right on up to school aged kids.  There are so many possibilities for what they can create.

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

I love how these simple drawing turned out!  Perfect for Easter!

Easy Cross Craft for Kids  ~ Easter Craft

Looking for more Easter Crafts for kids?  Check out our:

Paper Plate Sheep

Egg Carton Cross

Easter Borax Crystals

Funny Bunny Faces Game

Adorable Easter Chicks

 

Related posts:

  1. Wet Chalk Drawings
  2. Melted Crayon Cross
  3. Egg Carton Cross
  4. Colorful Light Ray Cross
Posted in Spring, Uncategorized and tagged Cross, Easter, Kid Art, Spring.

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  1. Wet Chalk Drawings
  2. Melted Crayon Cross
  3. Egg Carton Cross
  4. Colorful Light Ray Cross
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2 thoughts on “Easy Cross Craft for Kids”

  1. Linnea on February 19, 2016 at 10:20 am said:

    How long do you soak the chalk?

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    • Tammy on February 21, 2016 at 3:34 pm said:

      I just placed the chalk into water and the kids started playing. Although if the chalk soaks overnight it works as well. Love to hear how it goes!

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