Have you seen fun photos of people posing on scenes of sidewalk chart art? Chalk photography is all the rage and we are going to show you how you can create easy chalk art using spray chalk with your kids. Thanks to Testors for sponsoring this post.
Did you know that you can SPRAY chalk?!? Yes, when you want to make easy chalk drawings, you can skip the regular sidewalk chalk and grab some SPRAY CHALK instead. As we showed you in our earlier post about Spray Chalk Fun, Testors has created a brilliant replacement for traditional sidewalk chalk. And you can see more details on how to spray chalk an American Flag here.
Spray chalk is so fun to use and it is perfect for older kids and teenagers who have may think they have outgrown playing with sidewalk chalk. And spray chalk creates bright and bold colors which is fantastic for chalk photography.
Watch how easy it is to make chalk photography with spray chalk…
With the new Spray Chalk from Testors, you and your kids can quickly and easily create fabulous artwork even where sidewalk chalk can’t go because Testors’ Spray Chalk works on cement, asphalt, grass, sand, and even snow! Yes, your chalk photography scenes can have so many different backgrounds.
Since it sprays on like spray paint, you and your kids can whip up games to play outside like 4 square, hopscotch, mazes, art contests, and more. Check out our earlier post to see how to make spray chalk racetracks.
Kids can have art contests, create cities and streets for their cars and toys, decorate sand castles, and anything their wild imaginations can come up with.
Tweens and teens can push their artistic boundaries and see what amazing works of art they can spray.
And it all washes off in the rain or fades away in the summer sun.
Have You Tried Chalk Photography?
Have you heard of “chalk photography?” It is basically creating an image with chalk on the ground and then photographing it with subjects in the scenes.
Spray Chalk is perfect for “chalk photography.”
Your chalk photography scenes can be as simple as a child holding a flower or a bunch of balloons to as elaborate as creating an entire scene with room for multiple people to pose.
Testors has released a Patriotic set of colors just in time for Fourth of July summer celebrations.
So we tried out some Americana scenes with our girls.
Fireworks and Sparklers July 4th Chalk Photography Scene
Stars and Stripes Scene Chalk Photography Scene — featuring the American Flag
Statue of Liberty Chalk Photography Scene
How To Make A Chalk Photography Scene…
1. Find a Safe Space and Mark Your Subjects Position
After you dream up your perfect chalk photography scene, find a traffic-free space, driveway, sidewalk, lawn, etc.
Get your subjects to lie down and mark their positions with masking tape.
2. Start Spraying
Once you know what you are drawing and where your subjects will be in the finished scene, you can start spraying.
Keep in mind what you want your end photograph to look like and how much your camera will capture.
SPRAY CHALK TIP:
Spray chalk works well with templates to create incredibly easy chalk drawings. Simply draw and cut out templates from heavy poster paper from the dollar store.
We made star templates…
… and we made an American Flag using three different stages of templates.
Check out this other blog post for our American flag template.
3. Get Subjects in Position and Start Photographing
Once your artwork is complete, it is time to document the magic.
Get your subjects back in position, remove the masking tape and start photographing.
PHOTO TIPS:
To capture your chalk photography scene, you usually want to get the overhead shot.
You can shoot chalk photography with your mobile phone, a Go Pro or any camera with a wide-angle lens.
To get above your subject/scene, you can use a ladder and/or use a boom or selfie stick for extra reach.
After, you can remove the ladder or your feet from your image with editing software such as Photoshop. If you don’t have Photoshop, you can use free photo editing software such as PicMonkey to remove unwanted objects.
If your image is warped slightly because you are shooting with a wide angle lens and/or you are shooting at an angle, you can use transform and liquify tools in your editing software to get things back in shape.
And if you want to get up really high and photograph a really big scene, you can also do what we did, and call up that friend who has a DRONE…
We hope you have a blast creating some outdoor artwork this summer and that you’re inspired to get your kids making their own easy chalk drawings. Let us know what you are creating and share links to any photos or posts you make. We would LOVE to see your spray chalk art.
Don’t Miss This…
Be sure to check out how to make a race track with spray chalk…
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Testors. Thanks for reading and sharing. We published the first version of this post on June 20, 2018. We’ve updated it to share with you again.
Written by Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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Probably a unicorn
My daughter would draw things having to do with music.
I think my Grandson would like to do the fireworks with the chalk
Something to do with robots or cars!
I really like the fireworks scene. I think my son would also like a picture with him in the stars, possible with a shooting star and planets.
I love the fireworks picture! I’d love to do something with flowers and my daughter! So much fun and a great summer activity.
My kids would love to do a summer theme with flowers.
My granddaughter would make butterflies.
My granddaughter would love a scene with trolls her favorite movie
I dont know what they will draw but they will have fun
Sunscape!
My son would love stars and stripes
My daughters would love to do the statue of liberty scene.
I would love to do the fireworks and the flag!!
they would love to make butterflies , flowers and hearts
it would be a good way to show the artst in a child
My son would love to do something with what ever holiday it close. He loves to decorate our sidewalks with sidewalk chalk. This would up his game 🙂
I grandson would like the stars with the flag.
My son will try to recreate scenes from video games.
Thanks for the giveaway!
animals and trees
looks like so much fun my grandchildren will love this thank you
My son would really like to make the race line one!
My grandson would make boats and rockets
we would make a garden scene with the paint chalk. it would be so much fun.
So cool! They would like crowns and hats.
They would draw The SImpsons.
A flag and anything disney
It depends on which kids. My daughters would make nature drawings and my son would make characters associated with video games and comics.
My daughter loves anything that has to do with her dog.
My oldest would love to be in any kind of outer space scene!
Flowers and rainbows
My niece is very creative so she would probably make anything and everything. She’d probably start with a beach scene.
Probably of the pets or family portrait or anything like the landscape or buildings. Thanks so much.
My daughter would probably like making a floral scene.
I love your pictures. I think we would try to recreate that.
My boys would love to draw cars & trucks with this spray chalk they’d share with all there friends too
My kids would love to draw something like Minnie and Mickey Mouse.
I believe the Fourth of July scene is nice🇺🇸
My daughter would love to make animals and flowers.
My kids would make a dinosaur or animal scene
My granddaughter loves to draw the ocean and beach so that is probably what she would draw.
My kids LOVE Minecraft so I think they would make a scene involving Creepers and Zombies! 🙂
I think they would like to do something Harry Potter. That could be really fun! A Harry Potter 4th of July. lol
I think they would like to make a snow man scene
They would do chalk art of dogs and cats with flowers!
I could see my kids making some cool spray chalk pokemon scenes!
I think my very artistic daughter would love to make a pony scene if she won the spray chalk. Looks so fun!
This spray chalk looks so awesome and easy to use! I’m sure my niece would love to do a flower scene. A beach scene would be super fun and cute. I would try that one with her!
My grand kids would love making fire works. They are so excited for the up coming holiday
My daughter would want to draw dinosaurs !
My daughter would make something dragon related.
It would be fun to do something for the 4th of July!
My daughter would do a dragonball scene.
My kids would want to draw bugs.
My kids would probably do a beach or horror related theme first. Then have fun with stars and other scenes.
My niece would have so much fun
My son would probably do something Minecraft.
My kids would want to do an anime one.
They would probably do something Avengers-related!
My kids would love to do a crime scene! They are into all the muder mysteries! This would be an awesome family photo scene!
My son would love to make a creepy Halloween scene.
Outer space
The first would be a beach scene. Thank you for the giveaway!
The girls would love this to draw their horses..thank you
My granddaughter would lovei anything having to do with animals.
My daughter would draw her favorite anime character
This looks like so much fun for the whole family have fun
I would like to see a picnic scene
My daughter would like to make an outer space with the moon and stars or a farm with animals.
They enjoy flowers, houses, flags and other “easy” drawings
My 9 year old would probably draw castles and unicorns.
I would make my Granddaughter a sunflower. She could be the stalk and I’ll use the chalk to make a flower.
Thank you for the chance!
My kids would do the body outline. I had no idea chalk was available in a spray can. How cool.
My boys would want to make some kind of animal–probly one of our German Shepherd, Nala.
My son would like do to the car race
Great with chalkboard paint for room decorations.
cartoon characters
My daughter loves to draw anime figures so I am sure she’d find a way to do that with spray chalk.
I think a 4th of July chalk scene photo would be fun to do!
I think they would make Dino’s and animals
This seriously looks like so much fun! I know at some point we would definitely end up with some dinosaur action going!
I think a fun beach scene with palm trees, the ocean and fun fish
My kids would be interested in underwater scenes!
My son would do a dinosaur scene.
We would do fireworks!
We would make fireworks!!!!
My kids would spray out a jungle, then try to camo themselves.
I think my daughter would like to draw the sun and flowers.
I think my nieces would have fun making a castle or a carnival.
My niece will love this
My girls would like the chalk art with flowers.
A garden scene
Thanks for the chance
My daughter Jameson loves her name and to practice writing it amongst butterflies and fairyland type art
My daughter would do a fairy garden scene!
My granddaughters would create a beach scene.
The kids would try to recreate our local park. They love drawing trees and flowers.
My grandsons would probably make a scene with robots.
my son would draw his fave cartoon characters
since i have 7 grandsons and only 1 grandaughter i think they would love something to do with sports
I would like the girls to be riding a bike and holding a ballon.
My daughter would make flower art with the chalk.