Games with chalk on the asphalt

Children find playing with chalk on asphalt to be a straightforward and enjoyable pastime. It fosters creativity by enabling children to write, draw, and use their imaginations. A piece of chalk and an empty pavement area are all they need to begin creating their own vibrant world.

These games deal with more than just art. Children can learn vital skills like motor control and hand-eye coordination by drawing with chalk. It provides an excellent opportunity for families to spend time outside, taking in the fresh air and strengthening their bonds through amusing challenges and designs.

Games on chalk can be educational as well as entertaining. This activity offers countless opportunities for learning and having fun at the same time, whether it’s hopscotch, sketching shapes, or making masterpieces on the sidewalk.

Creative games with chalk on the asphalt

1. Competition of thematic drawings on the asphalt – for a group of children of about the same age.
2. Drawing using a stencil. To do this, you need to prepare cardboard stencils at home in advance.
3. Tracing and guessing games. You can use chalk to trace different objects: castings, stones, hands, feet, a shovel, a scooter. Color and shade silhouettes. And then ask your mother or friend a tricky question: “Guess what I circled?”
4. Trace the shadow of each other or mother. A game without much meaning, but interesting.
5. Drawings. Draw all the geometric shapes known to the child on the asphalt: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, rhombus, oval, trapezoid, parallelepiped, etc.d. Let the child finish drawing them and turn them into a familiar object: the sun, a house, a person, a car, a Christmas tree..
6. Liquid chalk! An unusual way of creative expression. Liquid chalk is safe and bright. And some recipes have a magical property – to bubble! Recipe for liquid chalk at the link.
7. Wet chalk. If liquid chalk did not work, try wet chalk. You can wet it and draw it right away, or you can soak it in water with sugar beforehand – this way the colors will become brighter.
8. Draw yourself. This is a very interesting game. But it should start in an unconventional way: the child lies down on the asphalt, the assistant traces his silhouette. But you need to color and come up with an outfit for yourself! If lying on the asphalt is unacceptable, you can try to trace the shadow, but the proportions will be distorted.
9. Asphalt copybooks. The elder outlines the contours of the drawing or inscription, like a dotted copybook. The child traces their.
10. 3D effect. When flat drawings are no longer interesting, you can do crayons with a volumetric effect from Crayola (Crayola “3D” Asphalt Drawing Set).
11. Tell a story. A game that develops speech and imagination. One of the participants in the game draws 3-4 objects (any) at his own discretion, and the other must come up with and tell a story about them. Then you can switch roles. You can play a similar game with Story Cubes, the templates for which you can find at the link.
12. Decorations. Boys will be interested in drawing roads, parking lots, garages for their toy cars, girls – doll houses (with furniture and other attributes necessary for the game) or, for example, a zoo for small toy animals. This way, games with crayons on the asphalt will become role-playing.
13. Stained glass. For children who really want to create, but find it difficult to draw, you can make a stained glass. Take some tape for a walk and stick it in chaotic lines on the asphalt. Let the child color the sections with crayons of different colors. Remove the tape – you have a stained glass!
14. Arrange Day of drawing on the asphalt! You don"t need any special scenario for this, the basis of creativity is always disorder. But you can make a "legalized disorder" by limiting the child"s imagination to some theme: animals, birds, transport, school, letters, numbers, flowers, etc.d.

Outdoor games with chalk on the asphalt

1. Hopscotch. An unforgettable game popular for the last 100 years. Options for an unusual field for playing hopscotch are below.
2. Frog. Draw circles on the asphalt and let the child jump like a frog from one "leaf" to "another".
3. Shooter. It is necessary to wash off the chalk-drawn artwork from the asphalt, fence, wall and other surfaces. Not just wash it off, but train your aim with a water pistol!
4. Maze. Mom draws a winding path, and the child must walk along it without stepping on the boundaries of the lines. It is also interesting to roll a car on a rope or ride a bicycle along such a path. You can depict obstacles on the road that will need to jump or go around. If mom is not lazy, she will be able to draw a real labyrinth, from which the kid will have to find a way out. To make the walls of the labyrinth even, take a rope and tie something heavy enough (for example, pebbles) to its ends. Use the rope when drawing the walls of the labyrinth: stretch it and draw a straight line along it.
5. Shooting range. You can practice your accuracy. Draw a circle-target on the asphalt with chalk and throw pebbles or cones into it one by one. Or you can draw a large square and divide it into 9 small squares. Each of the players should have their own chips (these can be painted pebbles) From a certain distance, you need to take turns throwing stones into the net. The goal is the same as in the game of tic-tac-toe – to occupy the entire row with your chips horizontally, vertically or diagonally. If the chip lands on the dividing strip or on a square already occupied by the opponent"s chip, then it is removed from the field, and the turn goes to the second participant.
6. Twister on the asphalt. In addition to crayons, you can draw with paints: it’s brighter.
7. Snakes and ladders. A popular game of Snakes and ladders on the asphalt. Here you won’t need chips! The chips will be the children themselves. Instead of a cube with dots, you can draw a circle with dots. Where you throw it – that’s how many steps you take.
8. Mushroom rain. Before the game starts, you need to draw large circles on the playground, the number of which should be one less than the number of children playing. The host announces that the circles are mushroom caps, and the players are forest animals that hide under the mushrooms when it starts to rain. On the command “Sunshine”!the players start running around the circles, and when the leader shouts: “Rain!”, kids should hide under the fungus, that is, take a free circle. Anyone who does not have time to do this will have to leave the game. After each stage, the leader takes chalk and crosses out one circle, explaining that this mushroom was picked by a mushroom picker and put in his basket, so you can no longer hide under it. The winner of the game is the player who occupied the last house.
9. Treasure hunt-1. Draw a square on the asphalt, divide it into 4 equal smaller squares. In each small square, draw some object that the child will have to find. The child looks for objects and covers the squares with them. This game can be played by a large group of children, dividing them into two teams. Each team fills in its own square. The team that finds all the items faster wins.
10. Treasure Hunt-2. Hide it somewhere in the yard "treasure". Draw arrows with chalk to guide the child to find the treasure. You can draw clues not only on horizontal but also on vertical surfaces (trees, fences, etc.p.).
11. Hunting. With this game, a child will be able to get to know nature better. Draw a few circles and label the objects that he will need to find in the yard and put in them. These can be blades of grass, sticks, fallen leaves, stones. Why not study nature and mathematics at the same time? Write the exact number of objects for each circle!
12. Floor walking game. You need to take a dice from home in advance, or replace it with a circle on the asphalt, divided into 6 sectors with numbers 1-6 (let them throw a pebble there with their eyes closed). We draw cells or circles on the asphalt, along which you need to reach the end, you can come up with skips, fines, tasks for a certain color (a riddle, a dance, a song, a poem, run to a pole and back, etc.p.). Whoever reaches the finish line first wins.
13. Obstacle course. This game is great for developing imagination. Make a path of large letters on the asphalt. To complete the obstacle course, you will have to stop at each letter and perform some action that begins with that letter. When the child stops at the letter C, he can jump or laugh, at the letter T he can dance or stomp. Let each participant in the game try to come up with a new action.
14. Quest. For a child or a team of children, you can draw real quests with chalk on the asphalt. Jump, spin, crow here, like this – go squatting like a duck. Turn on your imagination!

Educational games with chalk

1. Map. Develop spatial thinking, memory, imagination and motor skills. Try drawing a map of your apartment, summer house or plot of land on the asphalt with your child.
2. Tic-tac-toe. As well as other paper games – they can be transferred to the asphalt!
3. BukvoPryg. Draw a rectangle and divide it into 30 cells (without Ъ, Ы and Ь). Fill it randomly with letters of the alphabet. Now you need (you can do it for speed) to jump through the alphabet from beginning to end. For older children – from end to beginning.
4. TsifroPryg. The same, only with numbers. We took up to 20, older children can do more. Draw a rectangle of 4 * 5 cells, fill them randomly with numbers and jump them in order.
5. Color Jump. The game is similar to the previous two, but it requires remembering more sequences. Remember the colors that the leader calls. The child stands in the center of the circle, you call a certain color, he stands on it, and then returns back to the center. You call a new color, now he must stand on the one that was before, then on the new one, then back to the center and so on. The more colors the child remembers, the better.
6. Repeat after me. Here everything is simple – you have two identical circles with different colors, you perform an action (jump, cross, touch certain colors), and the child must repeat exactly and not get confused.
7. Clock. This fun game will teach children to tell time on a clock with hands. It is better to play it together. Draw a large clock with the children and decide who will depict the hour hand and who the minute hand. Tell children the time so that they can run around the playing field and show it on the clock.
8. Traffic light. Draw multi-colored ovals (red, yellow, blue, green) and ask your little one to jump from one to another, like a bunny, naming the colors. Or you can draw the figures in one color, but make them different shapes (circle, square, triangle). Let your little one jump and name the shape of the figures.
9. Confusion. A version of the game – a labyrinth on a large scale.
10. Big letters. Ask your child what letter is drawn here, and ask him to walk along the outline of the letter with his feet. You can also play with geometric shapes (run in a circle, walk along the sides of a square or triangle).
11. BukvoShmyakalki. Draw a field, fill it with letters at random. Take a pebble. With your eyes closed, "smack" it into our field of letters and name a word with this letter. For older children – a letter at the end, or name not 1, but 5 words.
12. TsifroShmyakalki. Throw a pebble in a rectangle with numbers. What number did he get to – we count to this very quickly, the main thing is to stop in time, it is not easy!
13. Alphabet. Draw letters and numbers on the asphalt with different colored chalk (make them different sizes). On your command, let the child find the right letter (number) and jump on it. Just don"t forget that the letter should be called as a sound, for example, "b", not "b".
14. A gift for a letter. An adult draws different letters, and the child draws a gift for each letter next to each letter – an object whose name begins with this letter. For example, the letter "A" can be given an orange, and the letter "B" – a bucket.
15. Jump the word. We make each child jump the word quickly in turn. The older – the longer and more difficult it is. For the game, you will need to draw a field with letters in disarray.
16. Logical sequences. You draw a logical sequence consisting of two or three elements, and the child must continue it. Example: AABAABA..
17. Fractions. You draw a figure, and the child must divide it into 2, 3 or 4 equal parts.
18. Pathfinder. Find with your child on the Internet or in an encyclopedia the tracks of different animals and draw tracks from the tracks on the asphalt. The game consists of taking turns walking along these tracks, depicting the animal whose tracks you are following.
19. Puffy paints for asphalt. Mix flour, water, dishwashing liquid and grated sidewalk chalk, pour into bottles, one for each color. Squeeze the mixture onto the asphalt. The drawing will remain three-dimensional until it is washed off.
20. Scientific experiment. Add crumbled and broken pieces of chalk to a transparent cup with vinegar. Watch the bubbles, which will soon begin to rise. Calcium in chalk reacts to the acidity of vinegar. This produces carbon dioxide, which manifests itself in the form of bubbles.
21. Sundial. Asphalt is a great field for drawing a clock face and learning the time on an analog clock. Or learning how a sundial works. In sunny weather, of course) It is interesting from about 6 years old, although it can be earlier, it depends on the child. Trace the feet and the shadow (you can write the exact time on the shadow), after 15-30 minutes (as it turns out) the child stands in the tracks of his feet and traces a new shadow, which will move and write down the new time. This way you can trace the movement of the sun in time.

Kids can enjoy outdoor play and develop their imagination and motor skills by playing games with chalk on asphalt. Children get to freely express themselves through drawing pictures, making their own games, or making hopscotch grids. Children of all ages can enjoy this enjoyable, screen-free activity that fosters teamwork and problem-solving abilities.

Beautiful classics and other pictures for inspiration

A collection of images from the Internet featuring the typical classics from our youth, played out in a lovely and unique way. Simultaneously, the game gains new life!

Excerpts from the activity card series’ "100 games for home and street" Usborne publication:

Children can play outside in an easy and imaginative way with chalk games on asphalt. They provide children with an enjoyable setting in which to interact with friends, develop motor skills, and explore their imagination.

These games promote the three things that are most important for a child’s development: creativity, teamwork, and physical exercise. Children can learn and develop via play, whether they are making their own games, hopscotch grids, or drawings.

Above all, chalk games are accessible and reasonably priced, which makes them a fantastic choice for families seeking outdoor entertainment. To make memories, all you need is some chalk and a secure area.

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