Chalk drawing on the pavement is one of the favorite summer activities for kids. Of course, you can easily buy it at the nearest store, but it is much more interesting to create your own product: unique, colorful, which no one else has. Before starting work, you need to figure out how to make chalk so that it turns out the first time. There are many good recipes, but the gypsum-based option is the most successful.
Materials
Get ready to learn how to make gypsum-based chalk. For work you will need such materials:
- Small disposable plastic plate. It is convenient to knead the mass in it, and then the dishes can simply be thrown away and not waste time washing.
- Disposable plastic spoon.
- Gypsum. It is sold in creative stores or construction departments. For the first time, only 1-2 glasses of powder will be enough.
- Warm water. Fluids need so much to bring gypsum to a thick paste.
- Cookie cutters. It can be silicone molds for ice, plastic disposable cups, thick plastic tubules for drinks, molds for sand.
- Acrylic or food colors in different colors.
- Sparkles. These are optional ingredients, but girls love everything brilliant.
Cooking process
Step-by-step instructions on how to make home chalk will help you go through the whole process from start to finish. Pour 250 ml of dry gypsum into a plastic plate. Carefully pour 125 ml of warm water and 20 ml of acrylic paint of the desired shade. If using sparkles, pour them into the mixture too. Using a plastic spoon, quickly mix the mixture until smooth. Do not hesitate, since you need to make chalk in 10-15 minutes, and then the gypsum will harden. Put the mass in a tin, lightly tamp with a spoon, level the surface and leave to harden on a table or windowsill for 1-2 hours. Your home chalk is ready!
How to make chalk at home to make it dense and beautiful? Be sure to tamp the mass when laying in the mold, this is necessary to avoid cracks, gaps, irregularities. If you want a more saturated color of chalk, use more paint. Remember that gypsum quickly hardens, so do not immediately cook a large portion, otherwise the mass will harden before you put the crayons in the forms.
Options
To make the kids more interesting, make special, unique crayons that no one else has. For example, you can make giant chalk. To do this, use a disposable cup as a form and fill it with mass to the very top.
Another good option to surprise your child’s friends is to make striped colorful crayons. To do this, prepare several small portions of gypsum mass, paint them with acrylic paint in different colors and alternately put in the mold. If you are preparing chalk not for the child, but for yourself, for example, to apply patterns to the fabric, you can make a regular white chalk and give it a convenient shape.
Now you know how to make chalk with your own hands. All you need is to buy the right ingredients and get to work immediately!