Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

Yesterday, we had some super Summer FUN exploring with exploding sidewalk chalk paint bags. Rosie loved it so much she immediately asked to do it again. While I am certain we will do it quite a few more times this Summer, today I wanted to try something a little different.

MAGIC Sidewalk Squirt Paint

As with most kids Rosie and Jewel love squirt bottles. They love squeezing them to make liquid come out so much that old shampoo bottles are pretty much the favorite bath toy around here. While we have tried squirt painting in a variety of ways in the past, I was super excited to arm the girls with a bunch of magic sidewalk chalk filled squirt bottles and give them free rein to paint the town, or in this case, the pavement.

Magic Squirty Chalk Materials (affiliate links provided)

Corn starch

Food coloring

Water

Squirt bottles

Baking soda

Vinegar

You will need one squirt bottle for each color of paint you want to make. Fill each bottle roughly 2/3 full with a corn starch and baking soda mixture. I used roughly the same amount of both ingredients.

Add a few drops of food coloring and fill the bottles the rest of the way with water. Then use a butter knife or similar to stir the ingredients. The mixture is VERY thick at first, but soon all the ingredients melt into a colorful magic paint.

After you have the mixture mixed a bit place the cap on the squeeze bottles and shake them well (Rosie was happy to help with this part) Note- you will also want to fill a couple squirt bottles with vinegar.

Both girls were super excited and jumped right in to start SQUIRT painting

Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!} Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

They had a blast creating colorful sidewalk art

Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!} Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

Once all the bottles were empty Rosie immediately asked for more just like yesterday..... only this time I had a surprise- squirt bottles filled with VINEGAR! The fun began again!!!

Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

The girls had tons of fun squirting their sidewalk paint with the vinegar to make it ERUPT

Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

And splashing in the colorful eruptions was all part of the FUN!

Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

A Few Tips: I purchased six clear squirt bottles from Walmart for a $1 a piece some time ago, and we use them often for play. Any bottles will do though, even old shampoo or condiment bottles. I highly recommend the neon variety of food coloring. It made the chalk paint colors super vibrant!

Click the photos below to see some of the other ways

we have played with sidewalk chalk

Sidewalk Squirt Painting

So FUN Sidewalk Squirty Paint - this stuff is so fun it kept my kids playing for a whole afternoon! {Only 3 ingredients!}

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