Let your unmolded, finished chalk set out a few more hours to cure, then it’s ready to use!
How-to: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
July 17, 2011 By 3 Comments
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This is a great tutorial. I would never have thought to use tp rolls for the mold. Does it wash off the sidewalk easily?
Oh, yeah, it washes right off. One of my girls’ daily chores is to hose down our front porch and sidewalk every morning, because they’re the ones who’ve drawn on it and had picnics on it and let their dump trucks pour dirt all over it all the previous day, and the sidewalk chalk always comes off with the hose. We also draw a lot on the basketball court in the park by our house, and if those drawings haven’t worn off by the next rain, they’ll be gone afterwards.
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