Make sidewalk smoke bombs using this simple recipe for play.
We love creating big art in new and creative ways! Today, we tried painting rainbow clouds using powdered paint smoke bombs. The results were just too fun! Read on for the easy tutorial.
Make Your Own Chalk Color Bombs
Materials
- Egg shells
- Powdered paint (we made our own)
- Baby powder
- A glue stick
- Tissue paper
Method
- Begin by saving hallowed eggshells as you prepare eggs. To do this gently crack the top of the eggs using a butter knife like so.
- Carefully break the shell away from the openings until you have a big enough space for the yolks to pass through.
- You will then be left with hallowed eggshells!
- Rinse the shells with hot, soapy water.
- Then, place them back into the carton to dry.
Making Homemade Chalk Bombs
- It is now time to fill the eggs!
- To do this you will be using a simple mixture of crushed chalk and baby powder. The baby powder just helps the chalk to smoke more when the eggs are tossed. In place of chalk you can also use store bought color powder.
- Carefully fill the eggshells with the chalk-powder mixture.
- Then, cut squares from tissue paper that are large enough to cover the cracked part of the eggs.
- Use a glue stick to cover one side of the tissue paper square with glue, and then carefully press the tissue paper over the eggs.
- That's it! Once dry play can begin!
Homemade Color Bomb Play
Rosie and Jewel were so excited to go outside and throw chalk bombs!
They had lots of fun tossing the eggs at the pavement to make art!
The art created was beautiful, and with every toss there was a colorful cloud of smoke!
Rosie and Jewel couldn't get enough and wanted to toss egg after egg! They even tossed some of them multiple times. Hey, why not?
Extend the Fun
Give kids spray bottles of water to use once they had thrown all of the eggs.
Rosie and Jewel had so much fun spraying water on the chalk powder to make more beautiful art. Playing in the colorful puddles was lots of fun, too!
If your kids loved this activity also be sure to give these creative ideas a try!
- Fill eggs with paint to make art.
- Make ghost bombs using eggshells.
- Make paint bombs.
- Make glow-in-the-dark sidewalk chalk.
- Make chalk rockets!
- Make erupting chalk volcanoes.
A Few Tips:
- If you don't feel like making colored powder you can buy it in a variety of colors on Amazon here.
- Don't feel like cutting squares from tissue paper? Buy tissue paper squares! So much easier!
- Making crushed chalk is very easy, and there are tons of ways to use it in play. You can read about how we made ours here.
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