We collaborated on this one: the bunny is mine, the yellow is N, and the pink is Baby R. We also have a chalkboard that’s painted right onto part of our kitchen door, and it gets a lot of use for everything from chicken scratches to make-shift calendars to homemade infographics. This is how it looked two weeks ago, and then this week we started all over again. So I pulled the canvas down, wiped it clean with a damp rag, and let the kids go to town. Since October, it’s been filled with these house “rules,” and while I enjoyed looking at them, and even managed to inspire a neighbor to add some chalkboard quotes to her own kitchen, I was ready for a fresh start and enlisted the help of my crew to come up with something new.Īnd maybe I was feeling a little bit guilty on those days that I just ate buttered toast and wanted to spit. This project began when I found a $3 canvas at a thrift store back in September (it had a print of a cow on it - truly hideous), and painted over it with a few layers of black chalkboard paint. Dry erase boards are wonderful too, but they’ll never have the same rustic appeal as a chalkboard. When I started to see them disappear from classrooms in favor of dry erase boards, I was a little bit shocked. You? The texture, the dust, and contrast are oh-so-appealing. Use them as place settings or display them on the buffet identifying all your delicious creations.“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo PicassoĬhalkboards…I love them. Purchase doilies at your local supermarket and paint them with chalkboard paint. Another project you just can’t go wrong doing. Paint Doilies and use them as place settings or signs to identify your buffet items. Just paint medium size river rocks with chalkboard paint and use them as place settings. This project is easy and can even be done by your kids. Paint rocks with chalkboard paint and use them as place settings. Let guests write their names or draw pictures on their glass and they’re sure to be able to remember which one is theirs… no matter how many glasses of wine they had that evening!Ĥ. If you tend to forget which glass is yours or even what charm you chose for your wine glass, you’ll love the idea of painting chalkboard paint on the base of your water or wine glasses. Great way to let your guests know that the Salmon they are eating is actually “Grandma’s secret recipe Lemon Salmon”.Ģ. Arrange your food platters on top and write with chalk what the food items are…directly on your new buffet runner. Paint it with chalkboard paint and let it “cure” for 24 hours. Using a painter’s canvas, you can cut a sheet of fabric to the size of your buffet area. You can even frame it with a beautiful whimsical frame, for an extra special touch.Ģ. Once the 24 hours is up, your will have a beautiful canvas which you can use for a menu board or a message board. Here’s the IMPORTANT part! Make sure you give the paint 24 hours to “cure”. You can repeat these steps one more time, making sure the canvas is completely covered in paint.

Then, paint the canvas with vertical strokes and wait one hour to dry. With a wide brush, paint the canvas with horizontal strokes and wait one hour for the canvas to dry.

Simply purchase an artist’s canvas and a small bottle of chalkboard paint… remember, a little goes a long way. Use chalkboard paint to create a fun menu board which you can also use as a message board, when you are “between” parties. People are finding more and more ways to use chalkboard paint. In the past few years, it has also been easing its way into the entertaining world as well. Although not an entirely new concept, chalkboard paint has been around for several years and a popular item in home decorating.

Chalkboard paint canvas