Getting crafty with Chalkola – review & giveaway
When I was contacted with regards to reviewing Chalkola chalk pens, my initial reaction was – no chance! I hate chalk, it’s one of my irrational phobias and the feel of it in my hand makes me shudder! As I read a little more about Chalkola I realised that these are actual pens, used in the same way as a marker pen, but with liquid chalk. The best thing about these pens is that they are designed for non-porous surfaces such as glass, plastic, chalk boards, white boards and windows, meaning that the options for getting creative are endless!
With a mixture of chalk pens and metallic markers, the girls were desperate to try them out and, not overly keen on the idea of having to clean my windows afterwards, we decided that the perfect way to try them would be to decorate some of our drinking glasses. With all of the pens using a water based ink, they can easily be wiped clean with a wet cloth or Windolene should you be brave enough to let the children loose on the windows!
With such a fantastic range of colours, the girls couldn’t wait to get started and although at first use the pens take a moment for the ink to flow smoothly, once we had waited patiently, both the girls and I, were so impressed with how bright the colours were, and they looked great on the glass!
I loved how the chalk pens did not require the girls to squeeze them while they were in use, unlike other products we have tried previously, and how any mistakes were easily rectified simply by wiping with a wet wipe.
Even when the girls got carried away and started to decorate their own hands, unlike marker pens I was able to wipe them clean within seconds rather than scrubbing furiously under the tap!
It was so refreshing to do a craft with the girls that didn’t require any help from myself, one that I could simply leave them to enjoy without having to assist them with the trickier parts every two minutes, or leave me in constant fear of spillages and stains!
The girls were over the moon with their decorated glasses and the chalk pens dried so fast that they were able to proudly display them just minutes later. I was so pleased with how well they have turned out that I have promised them that they can decorate the conservatory windows this weekend, their little faces were well worth that promise!
Priced at £16.90 for the 15 chalk markers and 6 metallic pens and £14.90 for the 15mm platinum series, the price reflects the quality of these pens, and also the fact that they are completely safe for children to use, odour and xylene free, and environmentally friendly. We have big plans to decorate vases, candle holders and plates over the next few weeks, it’s safe to say that our family and friends can expect home made gifts for the foreseeable future!!
Chalkola are offering my readers a 15% discount on these pens by entering the discount code 15OFFSTR at the checkout. Also one lucky winner will receive 21 Chalkola marker pens simply by entering via the link below!
Good Luck!!
My daughter loves painting.
Mine too! So messy though! xx
Making collages!
We love that too! xx
Stickers are the best – according to my kids.
Oh yes and mine! xx
Colouring in colouring books
Oh my kids love that too! xx
Thoe look great. I like that they are safe for little ones to use and easy to clean up. #bestandworst
I definitely love anything that is easy to clean up! Ha! xx
we enjoy making cards x
Oh us too! So much fun! xx
we love to take photos then copy them using our own sight of them.
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize for charity, to go to Romania.
That’s a lovely thing to do! xx
Painting and printing
Such fun! Us too! xx
we love making cards together. all our cards are homemade, i liek to decorate where as my daughter loves to paint
That’s lovely, home made cards are the best! xx
We like baking now she is older
My girls LOVE baking too! xx
We love foraging for natural materials, we make willow wreathes and decorate wooden letters
Oh wow that sounds lovely!! xx
My granddaughter and I love colouring in
Me too, it’s so therapeutic! xx
I love crayoning with my granddaughters
Crayoning never gets old! xx
We love Baking
Oh us too, and eating the cakes afterwards of course! xx
My kiddies love art and craft activities. They love going on a walk – collecting natural materials and coming home to make them into a picture using scissors and glue.
Oh that sounds lovely!! xx
My kids love to draw pictures and colour them in xx
Mine too! xx
my daughter loves to get a big piece of A£ card and decorate it with loads of crafty bits. They are always very colourful!
Oh I can imagine! xx
Making pictures with crafty bits that we have collected.
My children love junk modelling with all of the bits we collect! xx
We love painting!
Mine too, I just hate the mess! xx
We love finger painting and printing with poatoes
I used to love potato printing too! xx
Oh wow these look like a lot of fun! Both my children are craft crazy but don’t like the feel of a chalk stick so I imagine they would really enjoy these! I’m imagining the state of the patio windows on a rainy day!
Emma x
They are fab and way better than chalk, I cant wait to give them a try! xx
Anything that makes a mess hand and foot painting are a favourite
Messier the better, at the grandparents house, hehe! xx
i print templates off the internet and then we make them x
Oh that sounds fun! Must try the same! xx
We love painting with her easel
Sounds lovely! xx
Painting and making cards.
Mine love making cards, especially for me! I have drawers full! xx
My daughter loves anything with glitter, glue and paint!!! I put a big sheet of paper down and let her do finger and feet prints, makes such a mess but she loves it!!!!
Hah mine too! Messier the better! xx
At the moment they are enjoying finger painting although they make a complete mess of the kitchen during the process!!
Finger painting does get messy! xx
we’ve always liked painting
My kids too, so messy though! xx
Like colouring
Us too! xx
We love sticking stickers to create a scene!
My kids are OBSESSED with stickers! xx
we love painting 🙂
Me too – messy though! xx
My boys love making things out of Fimo at the moment
Oh I used to LOVE Fimo! I had forgotten all about it! xx
we like painting
Mine too! Good luck! xx
has to be finger painting – the messier the better lol!!
Good luck! xx
We are into making pictures from magazines and scrap bits from around the house. Their artwork is better than mine!
we love colouring x
These look like a great idea, we have a big chalkboard wall which they would be perfect for !
I think E’s favourite craft is probably any kind of collage, she is obsessed with cutting and gluing !
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Those look so fun! My girls would love them!
#brillblogposts
We love making seasonal crafts such as Easter eggs or Christmas decorations 🙂
These look like such fun (for myself even haha!!) Your daughters look like they’re having a great time.
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We don’t craft yet….. He’s too little!
We love family crafts, anything that involves paint & glitter is usually a big hit. Decorating plain things like baubles or wooden shapes with funky glitter designs has to be a favourite x
We collect things when we are out walking on the beach or the forests, then we go home and try and make things with them, all great fun
We love ? making little cardboard puppets out of cereal boxes of all their favourite characters… Star Wars, Harry Potter, Tom & Jerry, minions.
These look fab.I love that they are mess free.
Anything that involves glue! Making collages, and painting of course. They’d love these markers too Im sure.
Good luck!
These look fab! My boy loves craft but my OCD prevents him from really enjoying it whilst at home. He usually has to wait ’til nursery! These do look quite easy and mess free though! #bloggerclubuk
Haha me too! xx
My son and i love finding shells and driftwood on our local beach and making mobiles and ornaments
That sounds lovely! xx
Finding pretty stones in the forest then painting them into animals with nail vARNISH
Good luck!
Painting
Good luck!
We love making things out of play doh!
Good luck!
I ave them as well and I will do review they are really awesome! I’m so grateful that I will be able to review them
#brillblogposts
They are fab aren’t they! xx
my girls love paining, they love crafts like me
Good luck!
we like making different models out of old boxes tubes etc
Mine too! So much junk! xxx
Drawing pictures.
Good luck!
These are everywhere at the moment aren’t they? Perfect for something to do on a rainy day, and the fact they are easy to clean up is a massive win for me 🙂 xx
Me too!! The less mess the better! xx
At the minute we love colouring in
Good luck!
These pens keep popping up on my instagram and I love them…but I love anything stationery so I’m bound to. What a great idea to colour in your glasses! We have the same ones. Definitely a good crafty activity with little mess. #KCACOLS
Yes, they just wash off too! Perfect! xx
We love painting and baking.
Good luck!
These look fab! I am always looking for new and exciting mark making resources to incorprate within learning through play activities! #kcacols
They are fab! So much fun too! xx
Colouring in colouring books
Good luck!
Finger painting
Good luck!
We love painting
Good luck! xx
Love the look of these! So pretty. I love doing jigsaws with the kids, not strictly crafty but it’s what they enjoy. Thanks for linking up lovely #bestandworst
I love jigsaws too, with the kids, and without, ha! xx
These look fab! We are getting ready to try our chalkola products out this week. Your kiddies made lovely decorated glasses. Thank you for sharing with us at #BloggerClubUK x
Ooh I will look forward to reading that, they are fab! xx
We love drawing, baking, leaf rubbing, anything creative really
Sounds fun! Good luck! xx
These look great! We have some window markers, we also use the conservatory doors, it’s fab! Doesn’t take much to clean off, lol I don’t clean it off too often though! Hope your girls enjoy/ed drawing on the windows! #KCACOLS
They thought it was the best day of their entire lives, lol! xx
Baking and drawing
Sounds great! Good luck! xx
making various with plasticene like animals and things that live around us
Fab! Good luck! xx
My youngest loves playdough and colouring and my eldest likes creating things and painting.
Oh the dreaded playdough!! xx
They love colouring we all join in on one page
Oh we do that too! xx
My kids love anything messy, paint, glue, mud, glitter, etc etc. I’ve just made a massive chalk board in the kitchen using chalk board paint, they’d love these pens to go wild with!!
Oh they would be perfect for the chalk board! xx
Clay model making…well Play-doh really. I’m try to turn him into the next Michaelangelo…but he’d rather be the turtle if I’m honest 😉
Haha that’s so funny! xx
Scrapbooking is our favourite 🙂
That sounds like fun! xx
colouring and painting
Good luck! xx
we love painting
Us too! Good luck! xx
We really enjoy card making, We recycle our christmas cards and use pretty pictures to make our own! 🙂 we make tags for presents too 🙂
Oh I love that idea! xx
collages- we collect scrap stuff throughout the year for rainy day creations
Ooh good idea! xx
I love making Thankyou cards with my toddler 🙂
Ahh that’s lovely! xx
Colouring in, my daughter has her book and I have mine!
Sounds fab! xx
My two boys loves playing with playdough lots of fun
Mine too! xx
I’ve actually been on the look out for some chalk pens these look fab thanks for the discount code! Your girls are absolutely beautiful! Thanks for linking up to #KCACOLS
Ahh thank you so much. They really are fab, I’ve been trying them out too, I wish I’d had them before Halloween and Christmas to decorate the windows! xx
At the moment, just scribbling but I hope to do many. many different crafts with my grand-daughter as she gets a little older. These look great for her little hands to hold plus they are safe. Brilliant! (I think I will enjoy them too!)
Yes that’s the best part as children love to put things in their mouths don’t they?! xx
we love baking
Good luck! xx
we enjoy making pictures out of mosaic sqaures
Ooh that sounds fun! xx
i enjoy doing any kind of gluing – using old boxes, sequins, tissue paper etc
My kids love anything that involves glue! xx
I’m not into crafts much so its just colour by numbers colouring for grandchildren and me
Oh I used to love doing that! xx
Love the look of these, so bright and colourful. Your girls look like they are having a fab time 🙂 #KCACOLS
They are fab! All of our glasses are covered, ha! xx
I love making cards with my two young nieces.
Oh that’s always fun! xx
We love painting, we look for different crafts all the time! We’re planning on painting cotton discs like the earth later in the week
Oh wow that sounds fab! xx
sponge painting
Sounds great! Good luck! xx
Playdoh creations and painting
Good luck! xx
My grandchildren love doing craft activities with stickers and stamper pens x
Sounds fab! xx
We like having littel projects to keep them occupied, the last being a papier mache robot that we made from items we recycled from around the house as a base and left over paint from decorating. We had a great time. In the summer it’s great to get the huge chalks out of the shed and decorate the patio. Hours of fun, but washed away by the regular rain ready for the next sunny day.
That sounds amazing and so crafty too! xx
Painting, cutting and sticking x
Sounds fun! xx
Love finger print painting with the kids
Me too – just gets messy! xx
Making robots and monsters from empty packets
Ooh that sounds fun!
We love stickers. There’s a big sticker book on sale in argos at the moment with 4000 stickers, it’s taking a while to get through!
Oh we love stickers here too! I’ll check it out! xx
We love card mking all sorts really we love getting dirty with pain and glue
Mine are obsessed with glue! Good luck! xx
We love drawing with the children and colouring our pictures too.
Junk modelling and collages
Great fun! Good luck! xx
Drawing is no 1
Drawing is always fun! xx
Potato printing 🙂 can be a bit messy, but lots of fun!
Haha yes, kids love mess don’t they! xx
Collecting leaves whilst walking out in the country, then making pictures out of them x
That sounds lovely! Good luck! xx
Painting is always a hit with my son ?
Mine too! Messy though….ggrrr! xx
Paper mache, its awesome fun
Sounds great! xx
Making personal cards for family and friends
Thats lovely! xx
My little girl loves painting, she is 4 and is currently painting right now on a Saturday morning she will be amused for hours, she is very creative!
Ahh lovely! xx
colouring books and anything to do with glitter
Good luck! xx
What a lovely idea, love the colourful glasses 🙂
Thank you, they are fab aren’t they! xx
Making models from playdough
Ah the dreaded playdoh! x
we just love making pictures from stickers
Sounds great! xx
We like making cards
Good luck!
we ;like to collect boxes, bottles, lids etc and then just get the glue and paint out and let our imaginations run wild we have made all sorts from robots, castles, trees with owls in them, fish from old CD’s in a water scene,
That sounds amazing!
they like making cards at the moment
We love colouring at the moment but I can’t wait until we can get some playdough and get into that as it’s messy but I love it lol
Playdoh is the bain of my life! Good luck! xx
Using the magic painting mat as she’s just learning to draw now.
Ahh how lovely! xx
Pebble painting and making wired bead sculptures
Ooh that sounds fun! xx
Paper mache models
Sounds fab! xx
Paper Mache faces but sticking the bits of paper onto balloons then popping the balloons once dry and then painting, never grows old always fun to do
Oh we used to do that at school!! I need to do that with my children! xx
I’m going to be honest, I’m a bit of a clean freak and all crafts strike fear into my heart! Hahah. But I can handle a bit of painting … in a controlled environment lol. Don’t get me started on glitter! This sounds amazing, no mess and no scrubbing to get off the skin! My kinda craft lol
Haha I’m the same but these are fab, I literally let them loose on the glass, then into the dish washer and they came out sparkling clean! Phew! xx
Ours love finger painting
Good luck! xx
scrap books
Good luck!
Good luck!
We love making pictures out of different materials – my son especially likes tissue paper pictures
We love colouring and chalk art (which we do outside on the patio)
Good luck! xx
My niece loves stickers and her easel she loves to stick them everywhere x
At the moment, the favourite craft activity is drawing. The oldest draws Manga and the youngest draws people. Mummy draws her dream villa in France.
Good luck! xx
We love painting pictures
Good luck! xx
We love making birthday and Christmas cards.
Good luck! xx
My girls love painting – they have just painted some lovely flower pots for the garden ready for spring!
Good luck! xx
We like making cards for people. Thanks a lot for the chance. These chalk pens look fab!
Good luck! xx
We love seasonal crafts – cards, ornaments, papier mache. I struggle for new ideas so going by the seasons helps with the inspiration 🙂
Good luck! xx
I love making cards with them
Good luck! xx
Mine love card making x
Good luck! xx
We love painting
Good luck! xx
me and my boys love sticking shapes since there only little they enjoy just glueing different shapes onto things like loo rolls or cereal boxes to make different things
Good luck! xx
we love salt dough and making ornaments for christmas and easter
Good luck! xx
ATM hama beads 🙂
Good luck! xx
We love painting together, although it can get rather messy!
Good luck! xx
Colouring in colouring books xx
Sounds great! xx