Chalk games for children: ideas for fun

Chalk games for children: ideas for fun

I introduced my son to sidewalk chalk as soon as his little hands could hold it. He enjoyed doodling, writing, and tracing using a variety of colors. Little did he know he was developing important academic and motor skills while having fun. Chalk games are amazing learning that allows for hours of education! Also Read: Easy words that start with u

Goofy Races

Crazy races are easy to organize. Mark the start and finish sequences of an ethnicity. Then give different ways to get to the end: backward, walking, running, using a bike or scooter, jumping, etc.

Hopscotch

It’s an old classic (kids have been playing it for over 300 years) but one of the best chalkboard games. Use your imagination and draw the jump boxes in different colors and shapes. Use the chalk to decorate your hopscotch. Once your kids have conquered the course, see if they can jump on each square twice or use different feet to jump down the path and back up the system.

Snail hopscotch: this variant of hopscotch is great fun for the youngest! Draw a large circle (about 3 to 5 meters) on the ground, then draw a spiral course starting from the center and starting in a spiral to look like a snail shell: see my article on snail hopscotch, a great classic chalk game.

Avoid the shark

Here is an ideal chalk game for the youngest (2 to 6 years old). With different colors of chalk, draw “beaches” at different distances. Use blue chalk to remove the sea between the beaches and black chalk for the shark fins in the sea, and have the children jump from coast to shore to avoid the “sharks.”

Labyrinth

Create a labyrinth with chalk where kids can guide on foot, rollerblades, bicycles, etc. Have children design their web of wavy lines, circles, and other chalk lines to create a maze they can walk, run, bike or scooter through. The bigger, more colorful, and more complex the labyrinth, the more fun the children will have. Kids love chalk games and love this Play.

Alphabet hop

Use your sidewalk chalk to draw 26 squares or circles quite close together and write all the alphabet letters in each one. Children who are just starting to learn their alphabet call out letters to jump from one to another. Children can write, give words, and bounce them using one or two feet from letter to letter. During the summer months, it’s a not-so-subtle way to work on spelling skills while having fun.

Twister alphabet

For this chalk game, write the alphabet on the floor in a square formation (fairly close together, like the Twister game). Call the hand or the foot to place on such or such letter. Kids will have a giggle in all kinds of positions! This can also be done with colors for younger children who don’t know all the letters.

Artiste Switch

One of the best chalk games to develop creativity! Draw large rectangles on the floor (draw as many as the number of children who will be playing) and give each child a piece of chalk (or more). Invite them to begin drawing a photo in their area. Set a timer for 3-5 minutes and when the time is up, have the children switch rectangles and remove them from that space. Continue until all artists have had a chance to color all rectangles.

Body outline

Ask the children to lie in different positions on the floor and draw their shapes. Then let them fill in and color the outline with their face, features, and clothes. Please give them a theme like a beach, a summer day, a winter day, farmers, knights and princesses, astronauts, etc.

Dot and line game

Beginning by a chalk drawing an empty dot grid, two players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two adjacent unjoined dots. The player who completes the fourth side of a 1×1 square earns a point and takes another turn. (A point is usually recorded by placing a mark that identifies the player in the box, such as an initial or color). The champion is the actor with the most issues.

Create dolls

Take some clothes that you put on the ground (shorts and a t-shirt, for example). All you have to do is draw the doll’s body. The results are often very funny!

Shadows

This chalk game can be quite funny! Ask your child to stand so that their shadow is cast at a good angle. Draw a face on her “shadow head” and add a hair bow or a hat. Ask them to reach out their arm to cast a shadow next to their face so they can add a magic wand, flower, or sword from their “shadow hand”! Remember to take pictures!

The grid (2 to 4 players)

One of the ideal chalk games for young children can also challenge older children as they learn to use strategy to win. Draw a large square about 5 meters x 5 meters. Divide the large yard into a 10 square x 10 square grid. You can make the large initial square smaller, but the grid spaces need to be big enough for the kids to stick to.

Give players chalk and assign each a corner to start. The first player will move to a connecting square, then cross out the square they came from with their colored chalk. The players move from one court to another, crossing the yards.