How to Make Flower Chalk Art
This flower chalk art is so fun to make! Use our printable flower outlines to create beautiful spring silhouette art, using simple chalk pastels.
Yield: 1 flower silhouette
Cost: $1
Equipment
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials
Step 2: Add the flower template to paper
- Print one or more of our flower templates! There's a link in the materials list above with more links and details below the tutorial.
- Cut out the flower shape.
- Then fold the flower gently and make a snip at the center of the flower.
- Cut out the flower's center.
- Add loops of painter's tape to the back of the flower.You'll need to add quite a few and make some pretty thin ones for the stem and tips of the leaves. Otherwise the flower is likely to move when you add the chalk.
- Place the flower on a piece of black paper or cardstock. Press it down and smooth it out so the flower sticks nicely in place.
Step 3: Colour around the greenery
- Use green soft pastel to colour from the edge of the leaf onto the black paper, pressing firmly and extending the colour out about 1/2 inch.
- Continue adding green around the stem and leaves.
- Blow off the excess chalk dust and then use your finger to smudge the chalk outwards, away from the template.
- Again, continue around the stem and leaves. Try not to get the green too close to the flower, since you'll be layering another colour on top.
Step 4: Add colour to the flower
- Add pastel around the outside of the flower. This time we've used different shades of pink, spacing out the bands of colour.
- Remove excess dust and swipe the chalk outwards, away from the flower. When you get to the bottom of the flower be aware of the green chalk and wipe your finger off before continuing if you get green on it.
- Then add yellow soft pastel to the center of the flower.
Step 5: Remove the template
- Blow off any chalk dust again and then remove the template.Since the flower shape is quite delicate, the template may rip. It's easier to do in little sections to stop the excess chalk dust from spreading around the silhouette area.
- Remove any tape that may have stayed behind and then use a Q-tip to clean up any smudges that got inside the flower.
- Your flower chalk art is complete!
- Have fun making different flower outlines using a variety of colours!If you use our flower outlines (find links and information below!) you can draw your own stems and leaves.
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Notes
Looking for more chalk art fun? Check out a few of our favourite projects:
Fall Leaf Chalk Art
Easter Chalk Art
Northern Lights Chalk Art