Paint the sidewalk with water for fun summer activity

I recently stumbled upon a great, inexpensive activity that will keep young kids busy on hot summer days – paint the sidewalk with water!

It’s almost too easy. Just fill up your child’s plastic sand buckets with water and find some paintbrushes in various sizes. We use inexpensive paintbrushes from the hardware store. Then let your little budding artist go to work.

The pictures or letters they paint will show up on the sidewalk as they get the cement wet, but will quickly disappear as the sun and heat dry them up. So they can keep on painting all day long. This activity would also work on a wooden fence or on the bricks of a house or patio.

You can also fill spray bottles with water and let your kids spray the sidewalks too.

My daughter Ally, 4, and her friends just seemed to like the idea of “painting” and getting everything wet.

This is also a fun way to have your children practice writing their letters.