The idea of a chalk bomb is a water balloon filled with chalk paint. There are a number of ways to make (or buy) chalk paint. We made our by crushing chalk and adding water. In theory it would have worked great because it was super bright and thick. The trouble came with getting it into the balloons. We only had super small balloons so that didn't make it any easier. I attempted an eye dropper and a spray bottle but neither were forceful enough to get the balloon to expand and allow more than a little bit in. I ended up filling it as far as I could then adding water. It definitely diluted the "paint" but it still worked. We had about 12 yellow, blue, and red bombs -
M loved throwing them. He typically squeezes water balloons until they pop all over him so he needed some direction to throw away from him and he did well.
Our paint wasn't super bright and was actually brighter once the splatters dried up. This was really fun though and we will definitely be trying it again with better balloons and/or a better filling method.
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