Blogger / 13 July, 2026 / Nanny Anita

How To Make Puffy Chalk Paint

One thing I love about working in London are the communal gardens.  These allow a lot of people access to green spaces that otherwise wouldn’t have anything.  Although I do have access to a communal garden at work, there isn’t any sort of pavement.  Why is this a problem?  It means that we can’t do chalk drawings on them.  Thankfully, I work for wonderful people who had no issue with me turning their front steps into a canvas for our puffy chalk paint.

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To make your own puffy chalk paint you will need:

• 1 cup of flour (per colour)
• 1 cup of water (per colour)
• 1 tbsp of dish soap (per colour)
• Chalk
• Condiment bottles
• Grater
• Bowls

You can either make an individual mixture for each colour, or you can make do it as a big patch and then portion it off for each colour.  I did it as a big patch.  Mix the flour, water, and dish soap into a big bowl and mix well to get out all the lumps.

I then put a put cup of that mixture into a bowl and mixed in one colour of grated chalk.  I would recommend using the small side of a grater rather than the large side to grate the chalk.  The larger side will leave you bigger bits of chalk which often get stuck in the nozzle of the condiment bottle.

Make sure your chalk is mixed in well before adding it to the condiment bottle.  You will probably have some of the big batch left over.  I used ours to top off our bottles after we had used them.

NC loved painting the steps with this puffy chalk paint.  The next day she kept asking to do it again.  I have a feeling this is going to be a craft that she constantly asks to do this summer.

If you enjoyed this puffy chalk paint, be sure to check out my sponge water bombs, French skipping, and paper kites.

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