{"id":580,"date":"2020-05-05T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/?p=580"},"modified":"2020-05-05T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T08:08:30","slug":"homemade-pavement-chalk-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/homemade-pavement-chalk-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade pavement chalk paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a request this week for a pavement chalk <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-581 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/05\/chalk-paint-recipe-small-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" \/>recipe as lots of children have been chalking designs on the pavements outside their house. This recipe will make a chalky textured paint that you can paint onto the pavement or a driveway and will wash away in the rain or with a hose when you are ready.<\/p>\n<p>You need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cornflour<\/li>\n<li>food colours or watercolour paints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mix together the flour and the water. It&#8217;s quite tricky to stir at first due to the funny texture of the cornflour but if you keep mixing it will eventually\u00a0get\u00a0nice and creamy (I made it a bit too runny this time as you can see from the pictures). Then divide it between paint tubs or jars and add a drop of food colour or a squirt of watercolour paint to each one and stir in. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-582 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/05\/IMG_4157-small-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/>Now pick a dry day and let your wee ones try them <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-583 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/05\/IMG-20200505-WA0002-small-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"199\" \/>outside. If there is a gap between making the paints and using them give them a good stir first as they tend to settle. We don&#8217;t have any pavement or drive so this week our neighbours kindly agreed to test run the paints for us.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-584\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2020\/05\/chalk-paint-small-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a request this week for a pavement chalk recipe as lots of children have been chalking designs on the pavements outside their house. This recipe will make a chalky textured paint that you can paint onto the pavement or a driveway and will wash away in the rain or with a hose when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/homemade-pavement-chalk-paint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homemade pavement chalk paint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/artatthestart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}