Building Our Chalkboard

Today, we went to the shop classroom and started to construct our chalkboard from the materials that we had recently purchased at Home Depot. We first decided how big our board was going to be. As a team we came to the conclusion that we would cut our large board into two boards and then attach them to make one large board, when we were done preparing them. The first thing we did to prepare our chalkboard was apply the primer specifically made for the chalkboard paint that we purchased. We split up our group and worked on applying the primer to our boards of plywood. After the primer was dry, we then started to apply the chalkboard paint. We got some tips from the shop teacher and learned that we needed to all paint in the same direction on the board and we had to do several coats for the paint to successfully turn into a chalkboard. After hearing these tips we started on the first coat. After we had successfully covered our board, we had to wait for it to dry until applying the second coat. Once, the first coat was dry, we applied the second coat, and our chalkboards were complete and ready to go.

The next day, the group asked me to find chalk for our chalkboard. I went to Market Mall to attempt to try and find some chalk for our chalkboards, but unfortunately they don't sell side walk chalk in the middle of winter. Fortunately though, I found a box in my garage and was happy to give it to my group, so that our chalkboard would be a successful project.

1. One of our chalkboards, after we had applied the primer.


2. An action shot of us painting one of our chalkboards with our chalkboard paint.