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Rock Art: Chalk Critters

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Check out this fun rock art with sidewalk chalk nature craft!  Your kids and you will both have fun using your creativity here.

We are getting stir crazy here with the sun shining. The kids want to do less and less school these days, and more outside playing. Isn’t that how it always goes in the spring time?

Here is a fun outdoor nature art & craft activity you can do with your children. They will love it! They will also love the opportunity to be outside in the glorious sunshine. I’m sure you won’t mind a little sunshine, either.

How to Make Rock Art With Chalk:

Rock Art with chalk
First, have your kids go outside and gather some rocks in the yard. Or, take the kids on a nature walk and gather them together along the way.

Gather all shapes, colors and sizes of rocks. Be thinking of ideas as you gather them. Do they look like animal heads or legs or bodies?

Next, brainstorm what you can turn each rock into. There is art and beauty inside every rock, I promise! Give each other some inspiration by telling each other what you see in the different rocks. (Kind of like cloud shapes!)

Now for the fun part, making the rock art! Get out your sidewalk chalk and turn the rocks into art!  Get creative and make all kinds of little critters.  (Or, try making homemade sidewalk chalk paint!)

I love how creative my kids were on this.  I gave them the idea, and they thought of the animals on their own- how adorable are they?

Mouse Rock Art:
rock art with sidewalk chalk- mouse
A Spider in its Web Rock Drawing
Spider rock chalk art drawing - nature craft for kids
Butterfly Rock Art

butterfly drawing with rock & chalk- nature craft
Alligator Rock Art  -of course! (This one really did need some explanation -for me, too)
alligator nature art
Get outside and enjoy some nature art!
Also check out my post on Sidewalk Chalk Learning Games for more outdoor play & learning. 

Teach Your Kids Some Rock Art History:

Tie this in to others areas of your teaching by teaching the history of art, carvings and drawings on rocks. Rock art has been a part of the world for as long as humans have been alive!  Ancient petroglyphs and pictographs can be found all over the world on natural rock surfaces. There are rock carvings and engravings in boulders and inside of caves.  We have even seen some in the Americas near us, in Utah!
Art was created using charcoal and homemade pigments, by hand and with brushes. The artwork discovered give us a small glimpse into human activities in prehistoric times. It’s quite amazing!
While this simple chalk art project is not going to last thousands of years, it is still a fun thing for kids to understand that this type of art work is ancient!

See More Nature Activities to Do With Kids:

Fabric Printed Nature Matching Game
Mix & Match Painted Rock Faces– another fun rock project with paint.
Nature Study Notebooking Journal
The Seeds We Eat- Nature Science
Alphabet Rock Art– painted letters on rocks!

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