A D.I.Y. chalkboard calendar is the perfect winter activity, and you probably have the materials lying around already!
Our shed overflows with old paint cans, boring whites, charcoal leftover from some craft activity or other, tiling grout and random rollers galour! I don’t think this is an uncommon sight, it’s a crafter’s goldmine!
Link to my inspirations one, two, three.
ingredients
Hover over to help shake the paint!
method
That’s it, too easy! The only problem after I finished was realising I really didn’t have that perhaps my social life isn’t exciting enough to display at that scale!
- Cover floor with sheets and put masking tape on light switches, skirting boards and window jambs, anything you don’t want to get paint on.
- Masking tape the area you want for your chalkboard, I just did the whole wall because there was some unfortunate post party graffiti up there, you know the kind!
- Mix tile grout with white paint in a ratio of 1:8 (about 2 tablespoons for 1 cup of paint)
- I put both in a container with a tight lid and shake it like mad to mix it thoroughly.
- Pour this base coat into the tray and apply to the entire surface you want to cover with a roller.
- After this has dried layout your basic pattern in tape, as some lines will overlap you’ll have to do this in stages. If you are doing shades of grey like me you might want to layout all the white shapes first, then light grey and so on with black last. I didn’t do that, that was dumb!
- Mix colours/shades as for the base coat, just adding different ratios of black and white (or colour).
- If you don’t have many brushes start with lighter shades first and work your way up to black, to reduce time spent washing brushes between coats.
- Let it dry! Some people recommend sand papering it and conditioning by rubbing chalk over everything and wiping it off. I didn’t, I’m lazy that way!
Marking triangle locations by dangling a weighted string to line up the triangles.
