DIY Chalkboard

Watching Caillou the other day we (My son and I) were discussing the pros and cons of school vs homeschool. In the episode Caillou was a guest at his friends school. He was not allowed to play ball.
He was not allowed to climb. He missed the assembly because he had to go potty and when he was writing on the chalkboard his friend said. "Its a good thing this is a special day because we only write on the chalkboard to do our work"

We are allowed to play, we are allowed to climb, We stop class to go potty but we did not have a chalkboard. Hmm so I started pricing chalkboards. Wow are they expensive. So we decided to make our own.

You can find tons of ways to do this project on Pintrest but this is how we did it.

Littleman painting the drywall

 

We went to Lowells to get plywood but the cutting guy was not there so we settled for a precut piece of drywall.

 

Added 4 coats of chalkboard paint letting each coat dry before adding the next.

 

 

Then with dads help we edged it with duct tape. Littleman chose orange.

 

Again dad helped affix it to the wall and Hunter was ready to go

 

 

Now he has his own chalkboard. Total price 25 dollars and took less than an hour to make.

Of course now we have lots of chalkboard paint left. Hmmmm what to paint next :)