How to Make Awesome Drawings with Chalk on Foam Trays

Reuse foam trays for a process art activity. This activity require minimal setup and recycles a common household item. Have fun making chalk drawings in this creative art activity.

 Foam tray chalk drawings

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We're always excited to find new opportunities for process art and this is a sure winner!

Chalk is a wonderful art tool that can be used just about anywhere: on sidewalks, on cardboard, and, of course, on chalkboards.

A simple foam tray is another surface that is perfect for writing and drawing on with chalk.

Chalk drawings on foam trays

We have a recycling program in our community that includes foam trays but I always like to use them in craft projects before sending them to the blue bag. This just makes life a little 'greener'. 

I use foam trays that come with our baked goods rather than meat products to ensure safe handling, even though the trays are washed before we use them.


Related: How to paint pumpkin pictures on foam trays.

Drawing with chalk on a foam tray is a fun activity that really needs no instructions!

Grab a few clean foam trays and some colored chalk and you are ready for an open-ended art activity.

Supplies for a foam tray art activity

 

Materials for chalk drawings

 

  • clean foam trays
  • chalk

 

 Process art on foam trays

Chalk drawings creative art activity

 

 

Chalk art on foam tray

 

We found it easiest to draw with white chalk on black foam trays. This prompted us to make lots of ghost drawings

Try a variety of colors of chalk and trays to explore results with different materials.

  • The chalk can be wiped away with a dry cloth or tissue. Eventually the foam tray will become embedded with lines and squiggles, especially if kids tend to press down firmly on the tray with the piece of chalk.

You can also wipe the tray with a damp cloth to remove the chalk but sooner rather than later you will have to go to a 'new' recycled tray.

 

Tic tac toe chalk drawing


Tic Tac Toe is one of our favorite games, and so easy to play with chalk on a foam tray.

 

Chalk art for preschoolers

This is an easy activity to add to your toolkit. It prompts creative play and recycles items that would go to the garbage.

 

Process Art board on Pinterest

 

More fun chalk activities from kid bloggers:

Measuring Chalk Drawings: Math for Kids

Chalk Drawing - Creating a Face

Chalk Skeleton Craft

Chalk on the Trampoline

 

 


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