Draw Something Sidewalk Chalk Style

Are you familiar with the app called Draw Something?  It is a very fun social app where you play drawing and guessing games with your friends or anyone.  We decided to play Draw Something outdoors using sidewalk chalk.  Here is what you do if you are not familiar with the game that basically combines Pictionary with Hangman.

1.  Think of a word - i.e. island (as pictured above).   Anything simple to start out with works.

2.  Draw boxes for how many letters the word is.

3.  Write letters that are in the word below the boxes.  Scramble the letters and include a few additional letters that are not in the word.

4.  Now the fun begins.  The person who drew out the boxes and letters starts drawing a picture of the word.  Everyone playing guesses out loud. 

5.  If no one guesses it you can "bomb" letters.  The person drawing can choose to start crossing out some of the extra letters that are written. 

Have fun taking this iphone app off the phone and play it outdoors!

Sidewalk Chalk Fun and Games Ebook

Summary - this ebook includes 30 sidewalk chalk games and activities to play

Retail: $4.99

More information at Sidewalk Chalk Fun and Games

Sidewalk Chalk Puzzles

Here is a fun way to add some challenges to using sidewalk chalk. One person draws a puzzle on the ground. For example, I started by drawing a square, triangle, a hat and a random shape colored yellow. I provided the children with this clue... "The squirrel had yams". The children had to guess what the pattern was by stepping on the shapes and pictures in the right order. Therefore, they would move to the different objects and check if they were right. Finally they figured out that the pattern was - triangle, square, hat and yellow. The pattern matched the first letters of the words.

Then each of the children created a pattern. Some were harder than others - shapes and the clue was a "preschool song". We finally whittled that down to the ABC song. And then figured out that you had to walk through the shapes in alphabetical order - circle, rectangle, square and triangle. Some children drew rhebus puzzles (where pictures represent words). Can you guess what the picture is at the top of the post?


It is a banana split! Get it? It is a banana and the shape is split.

This playful activity encourages:

• logic
• physical activity
• creativity

Need more sidewalk chalk games? Check out our ebook - Sidewalk Chalk Fun and Games.