Start by having each child lay down on the pavement and trace around them with a piece of chalk until you get a complete body outline. Then have the kids go to town drawing in and coloring hair ...

Carrollton's Chalk the Park event on May 22 offers family fun, art, games, food trucks, and a movie screening.

Chalk is fun to draw with, and some people even get really good at using it to make art on the sidewalk. If you don’t like tediously developing such skills, though, you could go another route.