Let your little one become a fashion designer with today’s Paper Chalk Art Dress idea! There’s even a free dress top printable that you will find below, to get them started with ease! #gluedtomycrafts
Ballerina Dress Craft Using Sidewalk Chalk
We’ve done it again on Glued To My Crafts! Our unique chalk art craft ideas are getting a very good response from our readers, so it got my crafty wheels spinning again to come up with a NEW idea to share with you all. This time my latest idea is for those aspiring dress designers in your home!
Dollar Tree and the Target Dollar Spot are both a great place to hit up for chalk, in large boxes with vibrant colors, for cheap!
With that being said, our super fun DIY dress design craft is going to be rather inexpensive to recreate. All you need is a few pieces of chalk, dark colored construction paper and our free dress top printable listed below. That’s it! I could even see this idea being done easily with a large crowd a slumber party, at summer camp and even birthday parties. Even adults can participate in this one too!
So what are we waiting for?! All the details and the free dress printable can be found below. Don’t let this crafty abstract idea slip away. Bookmark it now and later this week, make some colorful “one-of-a-kind” chalk art princess dresses with the kids & then show off those creations, with pride, with us! We love seeing those pics so tag them with #gluedtomycrafts in the description or tag us directly on Facebook for us to see it there!
Happy crafting, my dear friends! I can’t wait to see and admire those paper dress creations!
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Craft Supplies:
- Free Dress Top Printable {grab it on box.com}
- White Cardstock Paper
- Color Printer
- Crayons, Pencils, Markers etc.
- Kid Friendly Paper Craft Scissors
- Dark Colored Construction Paper
- Sidewalk Chalk
- Baby Wipes
- Glue Stick or Tape Runner Adhesive
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Directions:
- First things first – grab our free dress printable, listed above in the supply list.
- Next, go ahead and find it on your computer, right click and print the file on a single sheet of white cardstock. One print will give you TWO dresses, so you will be able to do the craft TWICE today. Print as many as you like but only use our file for personal use only please.
- Now that you have the printable, go ahead and color in one of “tops” in the printable, however you like. Feel free to make it as elaborate as you like!
- When done coloring in the piece, use your craft scissors to trim it out.
- Set aside the leftover paper piece with the other dress top in it, so you can repeat the craft later!
- Now grab a single sheet of dark colored cardstock {think dark purple or a blue} and your choice of adhesive.
- Glue the colored in dress top to the top of the paper.
- Now grab your various pieces of colored chalk.
- Envision your dress.
- Make several lines, going outward from the top piece {see our image for example} to make a dress bottom shape. Add as many lines and colors that you like to make it “puffy.” You want it to be nice and “full” so it looks like a dress.
- When done with the chalk, use baby wipes to clean off excess chalk from fingers and hands.
- Add any other embellishments you see fit {maybe some glitter or small rhinestone stickers!}
- Then display your custom one-of-a-kind paper dress piece proudly for all to see!
- Repeat the steps above, the same way, for the second dress piece leftover from earlier!
PAIR YOUR DRESS CRAFT WITH —> Popsicle Stick Ballerina Puppet
Make It Your Own:
Instead of printing the free dress file on a simple sheet of white cardstock, swap it out for colored paper instead and take out the “coloring in” step listed above.
Don’t feel limited by my choice of colors that I used as an example in this tutorial. Experiment with different colors of paper and chalk, to see what really makes your dress POP from the page.
On that note, did you know you can dip your chalk in water to make the colors more vibrant on your paper? Yup! Just set a small dish with tap water on the table, dip the chalk in it for a few seconds and then draw on the paper the same way as before.
Don’t have a printer? No worries my friends! Just hand-draw and cut out a simple “dress top” shape from some basic construction paper, instead!
RELATED POST —> Paper Napkin Dress Ballerinas
At Glued To My Crafts, we have a “knack” for stepping outside the traditional. It’s kind-of what we strive to do with our website.
So before you leave, if you enjoyed today’s sidewalk chalk art dress tutorial, be sure to also check out our popular Pool Party Unicorn, Paper Napkin Winter Trees and Paper Plate Llama craft posts!
All three are super unique and sure to impress the crafty fingers that recreate them! #gluedtomycrafts
Paper and Sidewalk Chalk Art Dress
Tools:
- Color Printer
- Crayons, Pencils, Markers etc.
- Scissors
- Sidewalk Chalk
- Baby Wipes
- Glue Stick or Tape Runner Adhesive
Supplies:
- Printed Printable
- Cardstock Paper
Instructions:
- First things first - grab our free dress printable, listed above in the supply list.
- Next, go ahead and find it on your computer, right click and print the file on a single sheet of white cardstock. One print will give you TWO dresses, so you will be able to do the craft TWICE today. Print as many as you like but only use our file for personal use only please.
- Now that you have the printable, go ahead and color in one of "tops" in the printable, however you like. Feel free to make it as elaborate as you like!
- When done coloring in the piece, use your craft scissors to trim it out.
- Set aside the leftover paper piece with the other dress top in it, so you can repeat the craft later!
- Now grab a single sheet of dark colored cardstock {think dark purple or a blue} and your choice of adhesive.
- Glue the colored in dress top to the top of the paper.
- Now grab your various pieces of colored chalk.
- Envision your dress.
- Make several lines, going outward from the top piece {see our image for example} to make a dress bottom shape. Add as many lines and colors that you like to make it "puffy." You want it to be nice and "full" so it looks like a dress.
- When done with the chalk, use baby wipes to clean off excess chalk from fingers and hands.
- Add any other embellishments you see fit {maybe some glitter or small rhinestone stickers!}
- Then display your custom one-of-a-kind paper dress piece proudly for all to see!
- Repeat the steps above, the same way, for the second dress piece leftover from earlier!
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