Check out this way cool colorful, fun, creative activity to help pass the time with the little ones during these hot Summer days.

This recipe comes to us via Kids Stuff World and Family Fun .

SIDEWALK CHALK PAINT RECIPE:

To make your own homemade sidewalk chalk paint, you will only need three ingredients ~ water, corn starch and a little food coloring. Quite possibly the simplest project with the kids ever! So simple in fact, I let them make the whole thing. The kids chose to make our first batch in purple, orange, green and blue but it wasn’t long before we had to come back in for a resupply. That’s when they cooked up some pretty neat red and neon green. The colors turned out so gorgeous, in a pastel sort of way.

To make you own, you’ll need:

* 1/4 cup Water

* 1/4 cup Corn Starch

* Food Coloring in assorted colors

* Paint Brushes

* Leftover Containers

* A clear patch of concrete

Note: I only used between 6-10 drops of food coloring for each paint color (and made one recipe’s worth of each color). I read later, on at the Idea Room, that adding too much food coloring could potentially stain your driveway.

This was such an easy craft (even Dads could do it) and the results were so cool I think it would be great for preschool, a play date, a birthday party or any event with lots of kids.

The paint has a nice chalky texture when it dries and can even be painted over again with water (when you run out of paint).

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