Preschool Activities – Playing with Wet Colored Chalk

I was looking for some easy preschool activities to entertain two little girls for an afternoon, and I did not expect they’d have so much fun playing with plain old colored chalk.

Did it ever happen to you that forgotten things just lay around and suddenly get interesting again? This happened to us with our collection of colored chalk. Out of no where it became one of these  super fun preschool activities that got me surprised.

A while ago I bought some colorful chalk for the kids to play outside in our small courtyard. But they never showed a too big enthusiasm for these kind of preschool activities. “Maybe it is because the tiles of the courtyard are not that smooth so they don’t like to draw on them….” I told myself and thought to put the pieces back in the box. But I didn’t do it – let’s call it “lack of prioritization”- and the chalk pieces ended up just laying ignored outside in the courtyard.  Up until Laura – a good friend of Victoria – came to visit.

That day, it rained in the morning but the afternoon turned up sunny and warm, so the kids went to play outside. Laura spotted the wet chalk, tried it out and WOW! Soon both girls  were very busy redecorating the courtyard. The fact that the chalk was wet made the difference and made their play one of these unexpectedly great preschool activities. The colors were brighter and the chalk was spreading smoother on the stone tiles which i guess made it more interesting for the girls.

The pavement ended up not being enough for their fun, they also painted rainbows and flowers on the walls – which I don’t mind too much as mother nature will take care of the clean-up as soon as a heavy rain comes our way.

With Laura’s help and the rain, my kids rediscovered the magic of chalk painting. And what fun preschool activity that was!

If you want to have a look at other great preschool activities we did with the kids, check out this easy to make chalk paint that was also lots of fun!