🖍 Chalk Town
A chalk road across the patio, then the cars move in.
🎨 Create·30 min·$3·Ages 2–5·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay with them outside. Chalk only on safe ground away from cars, and never in mouths.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Planning
- ✓Mark making
How to do it
- 1.Draw a long road with a few junctions.
- 2.Add a house, a shop and a car park.
- 3.Drive toy cars round it.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put pavement chalk on the step or the grass, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Make whatever they want with it, not what the picture shows.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 2–3 they'll do it their own way, not yours, and stop after five minutes. Both of those are fine.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Give fewer materials and more time — limits make better work.