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Today we are giving away the big basic set of 144 chalks (pictured above) and valued at $44.95!
Since we have been sharing chalk pastel art tutorials, we have always suggested starting with the student grade alphacolor set of 12 pastel sticks. A starter set is currently $6.40. You can get these at your local arts and crafts store, like Michael’s. This student grade starter set is what we started with and shared among our five children. You can even break a chalk pastel stick in half to share. Chalk pastels are frugal!
“I paint as a bird sings.” ~ Claude Monet
After we had been using chalk pastels a while, Nana gave us this BIG box of 144 chalk pastels. And now we want to give a brand new box to one of you!
Now for the Chalk Pastels giveaway!
Simply follow the instructions on the rafflecopter widget below to enter to win the Alphacolor Chalk Pastels set valued at $44.95:
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
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FREE for all! Did you grab your absolutely free ebook, Getting Started in Chalk Pastel Art. All our very best tips for getting started.
AHHH I am so excited you are giving this away…we have the oil ones but not chalk and the girls have been begging for them since they did your hummingbird tutorial!
We are always creating at our home. This year I started Masterpiece Monday and we learn about a different famous artist…study their work….attempt to copy some of it and on Fridays we have it as part of our Jeopardy game!
Fingers Crossed!
I have a big craft/art box for the kids to use in their free time, creating paintings, felt puppets, origami animals, etc. It’s always fun to see what they create.
I’d love to have the kids experiment with chalk pastels. With 10 kids, that chalk pastel set would be such a gift!
We like to share coloring pages with the children who come to the library where I work. Although many children come to the library to play on computers all day, some of the kids are just thrilled to be able to color something, and show it off to the librarians.
We started using your tutorials a few months ago and my boys have been loving them! I think using the chalks has helped their confidence in drawing. A couple of my older boys like using a fine point sharpie to draw as well.
What a great giveaway!!
We are always crafting and creating. Handicrafts like knitting, amigurumi, crochet and cross stitch, painting, pastels and basic crayons and paper. We also enjoy Harmony Fine Arts curriculum. We have a whole craft closet! We’d love to add these chalk pastels to our supplies!
We have lots of art supplies easily accessible and schedule time in the day (during some of Morning Time) for drawing.
My kids feel like they are artists when they use “real” water color paints.
We draw and use colored pencils, watercolors and oil pastels. My children would love the chalk pastels and your tutorials.
What an awesome giveaway! We love your tutorials! My kids love doing any kind of art, but what really helps them feel like artists is learning to draw. They also have just starting learning about watercolors at our co-op meetings, which they really enjoy.
We love following your chalk pastel lessons!
My girls love when I let them have free reign (as much as possible) with whatever art and craft projects they want to do.
We have art every Friday. I find many projects on Pinterest and have tried many of yours also. I love the the results we get from chalk pastels, but I have one son who doesn’t like the feel or the sound of the chalk on the paper. It drives him nuts! Any suggestions?
Perhaps he would enjoy oil pastels? He could lay down the colors and then, using linseed oil and a brush, blend them. This would eliminate that chalky feel, and also give him a bit more control then chalk pastels allow for. Just a thought. I don’t know how old he is, but I don’t think linseed oil is toxic.
If I give my children time and school credit, they love to do art. They also enjoy having nice art supplies.
I show my kids that they ARE artists by praising their ability to point out colors in nature, contrast, shadow, and texture. When they make comments about these qualities I tell them that they are seeing the world like an artist and that Gos is pleased when we appreciate His masterpiece. I think it makes them think about their own creations in a different way. 🙂
We love your tutorials and follow your page faithfully. We would love to add these to our supplies and share with our co-op. <3
My kids have enjoyed doing chalk pastels with your tutorials, and they love getting ideas on pinterest and painting canvases with acrylic paints (I find them at Goodwill and we paint over the pictures on them!). My two girls also love making things for their dolls to make videos. This weekend my 11 year old repainted a small pink and purple doll house with more fashionable colors.
My children were introduced to Nana last week as we painted a fall tree. My older daughter is hooked! This set looks incredible! We’re going to do the Columbus Day ship right after breakfast!
Hello! This is Nana from Hodgepodge! I am SO glad that you enjoy our tutorials and that your daughter is “hooked” on them…Hope that your Columbus Day pastels turn out great and send some photos of them to us, we really enjoy seeing finished work of our students! And…always remember: You ARE artists!
Love,
Nana
Whenever we take the time to do an art project (which isn’t real often), my kids love it. But they especially love to paint. We are going to try to do art more often this school year.
We love the tutorials because the kids gain a sense of success and can do them by themselves!
Pretty!! Drool! Thank you for such a great giveaway and all the videos and tutorials. May we borrow Nana?
Hello! This is Nana from Hodgepodge! Your email about “borrowing” me just made me smile…I am available ANY time through Hodgepodge tutorials and you can communicate with me on the comments section there also. You see, I DO read email from folks…and….if I could wiggle my nose and fly to your classroom, I surely would! Because… You ARE artists!
Love,
Nana
We recently have discovered oil pastels in art class and would love to win a set!
I try to buy the best quality art supplies whenever i can afford them. I was once told that when teaching something important, the tools you use should show that. My girls love expressing themselves through drawing, clay and paints.
We have enjoyed chalk pastels, thanks to your ideas and encouragement. They all feel very accomplished when they finish one and love to show them to others. They often feel that they don’t excel at other artistic ventures.
Enjoy your emails and art tutorials! Very helpful for less creative moms!
We use a lot of freebies & I listen to what my daughter may be interested in at that moment as well as something coordinated with school
We have enjoyed mixed media and knitting in the past and are looking to experience some new artistic tools this year. My daughter is a fabulous sketch artist and is just starting to show interest in color sketches. Thanks for the opportunity to win such an amazing prize.
I have a hallway lined with framed artwork the kids have done. They really enjoy looking at it and showing it to visitors. We used one of your tutorials for the first time last week – even my four year old was able to follow along. Thanks!
These look wonderful! My kids are enjoying using the small box of chalk pastels. They’d absolutely adore a huge box like you’re giving away. 🙂
Oh my 10yo loves to paint & do oil/chalk pastels. She loves your lessons. We added them to our homeschooling.
I love using chalk pastels. Some of my best paintings were done in chalk pastels and were gifts! Our kids have enjoyed using them as well, but I think they have some perfectionist tendencies that we still need to work through:)
Thanks for doing this give away. Our budget hasn’t allowed for a lot of art supplies this year!
I have a homeschool meeting coming up where I will be teaching the kids a project using chalks pastels! Winning this would be just awesome! Thanks for the chance!
We love pastels! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
My little man LOVES to color and paint! We use watercolors and tempera paints inside and outside. His favorite thing to do lately is pain rocks, acorns, and leaves that he finds around our home.
My daughter would love and get so much use out of these!!
I homeschool four amazing artists! My oldest leads the way with her creativity and artistic abilities. We have two art walls in our school room. We have just started investigating chalk pastels and these would totally enhance our creativity with a BRAND NEW medium! Just in time for fall and Christmas crafting!!!!
We do chalk pastel tutorials from your website. It’s works great for our 5 year old all the way up to our 14 year old. I love seeing each child’s interpretation of the same picture. We also use Playdoh, tempura painting, watercolors, coloring and random creations from stuff in the art box.
My kids love your tutorials and get super excited when I pull out the pastels! We would love to win this set!
I’ve been so wanting to try out chalk pastels. I have oil but have been leery of letting my little ones use them. I know I need to get past the possible mess but it’s hard. Letting them do things that are in their heads and seeing them come to life is what makes them know they are artists. I’d love to do this more with your tutorials!
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My kids love just free time to create as they feel like. Every once in a while we do a rainy day art day and pull out all the art supplies we can think of and just mix and create and explore at will! 🙂
We are just beginning using pastels. I’ve been to your site several times over the past few weeks trying to decide which pastels would be the best to start with for our family. We were surprised to see you were giving away a big box, which would be great with 4 budding artists!
My children love art in any form, but especially when I or my husband get into a project together with them, they get especially inspired.
I think I love working with chalk even more than my daughter, lol! Thank you for the chance to win!
We love to browse Pinterest or books and gather ideas from there! My kids love to express their artistic side through many different ways!
Chalk pastels are the easiest art activity for our kids. Paper, chalks, and either their imagination or a Hodgepodge video. They’ve learned color-blending, and they aren’t afraid to just dig in! Chalks have helped us ease into acrylic, watercolor, and charcoal. Thank you for encouraging everyone that they are artists and that they have their individual ways of seeing creativity!
We love chalk pastels. So thankful that I found your great info!
I love your Instagram account! You make art look so easy! ? Thank you!
My 7yo dd LOVES your tutorials and feels so very accomplished when she creates a masterpiece! I would love to expand her color choices with this set.
The biggest way I have found to encourage my children in art is to give them materials and free time to use them. We look up to toils online and we look in books for ideas and then they just go. It works well for our family.
I have a hard time getting my boys interested in art projects. I have found it a lot easier if the subject is something they love. My oldest loves hummingbirds, and we recently did the hummingbird tutorial. He thought that was really neat, and is looking forward to trying another one soon.
Color bending and shape shadowing are skills that we are learning here. Your tutorials give us lots of great practice using those skills.
I love sharing art with my children and grand-children and my students by playing music while we create and learning a little bit about artists and art styles at the same time….children’s minds are like sponges and they will absorb and release that in their creativity and develop a style all of their own.
I have two daughter and one boy. One in 2nd grade other kindergarten and a 2 year old. My 2nd grade daughter is a visual learner, she love, love to draw and paint. This will be a new tipe of art for her that I’m sure she will love it.
My two kids love using just about anything that I have on hand. We have both the pastel and the oil chalks, water colors, tempera paints, crayons, markers, colored pencils. I haven’t been brave enough to try our hands at acrylics and oil paints. But they love to mix and match many different mediums into their art work. We enjoy doing the pastel projects–often doing in pastels and then trying in different mediums. Amazing what they can come up with. Thank you for the inspirations and the give away.
Tricia you and Nana has been such a blessing to my little ones. Thank you for all the FREE tutorial on the site! Blessings to you all!
Hello from Nana at Hodgepodge! I wanted to say that you and your little artists are such blessings to us here at Hodgepodge! We so enjoy making our tutorials and hearing back comments from our students…please send us some photos of your work, we love seeing it! And always remember: You ARE artists!
Love,
Nana
I have always had lots of different types and colors of paper, lots of brushes and watercolors, acrylics, tempura paints,crayons, pencils and markers available. We have many many art and drawing books to browse and get ideas from. Lots of reading from books and great imaginations keep the art fresh and fun 🙂
we are loving the tutorials for Fall.
Love this giveaway and all your pastel tutorials! Both my kids love to explore with art. We have an Ikea cabinet stuffed with art supplies. Some days it is a directed art project but many days they are free to use the materials for their own creations.
My daughters latest was re-creating Monet’s Japanese Bridge. She did 3 different projects each using a different medium, including pastels. So lovely.
One of our favorite things to do is look at the illustrations in picture books and guess what medium the artist used.
We do Art on Wednesdays and they get so excited when they realize it’s Wednesday! They love to draw and I think they would love to do the Pastels!
My children love painting, chalk pastels, and drawing. The chalk pastel YouTube tutorials have been especially good for building confidence. My 6 year old won 2nd place at the state fair with her hummingbird picture she drew from your tutorials!
Our children have just recently started using Chalk Pastels and they LOVE them. Some of the tutorials are so simple that even our 2 year old manages to get his artwork to look like what we are drawing or learning about. And even when that DOESN’T happen – these pieces of artwork look so beautiful no matter what that everyone is ALWAYS so happy with the finished product that they feel more confident and excited about the next art project we have!
Hello from Nana at Hodgepodge! Thank you for the wonderful message to us regarding your children enjoying our tutorials! We love making art fun and easy for everyone! We feel that each child is born with a talent for art, and we would want to nourish that and help them find success. Thank you for taking your time to write and please send some photos of their work…we love to see it! And, remember, you ARE artists!
Love,
Nana
We love doing our chalk art during homeschool! Thanks so much for this giveaway. 🙂
These look awesome!! My kids love to make art!
My kids love to draw. They make their own trading cards, so that makes them feel like real artists.
The biggest thing for me as far as encouraging them is to actually stop and really look at what they create… to take time to see it and discuss it and ask questions about it. The medium doesn’t matter as much as my being interested and involved in what they are creating.
My girls love art projects. Anything that leaves them free to create makes them feel like artists.
My kids draw/paint pictures then set up a gallery and we buy them. With real money:-) They LOVE it. They even set the prices and sometimes my husband and I have bidding wars.
I’ve got 2 budding artist. Right now the favorite art supply is a small (24) set of Prismacolor watercolor pencils, but my daughter has been asking for chalk pastels (she doesn’t “love” the oils (which we have from when I was in art school). They’re on her Christmas list…lol.
My children like to check out books from the library on arts & crafts. Recently they had fun drawing and cutting out paper dolls and finger puppets. We’ve done a few of your chalk pastel tutorials — they’ve been great for increasing my children’s confidence in their art skills. We’ve been really pleased with the results. I know my children would really enjoy this chalk pastel set!
Two of my children enjoy everything art related. The others need to to be encouraged when it’s not perfect. Open ended projects work best for them.
My daughter loves to draw – fashion, flowers, you name it! The chalks would be used mostly by her.
My son’s artistic medium at the moment happens to be cedar trees and all the functional, beautiful things he can make out of it.
I get out of their way and let them create things their way, then ask what they like about their creations.
My daughter loves to doodle on her schoolwork and scraps of paper. I get her unlined journals and sketchbooks which she will use, but some of her best work is on scraps of paper.
I would love this big box of chalk pastels. Plenty of fun to go around!
We love all of the art pastel books that you sell!!
I love Alphacolor pastels and would love to introduce them to my kids.
So excited to read more on your chalk pastel tutorials. My girls love these and we don’t have any yet!
My kiddos draw constantly. Not sure we need toys.
They love oil pastels and are taking weekly art classes through a local art studio with our co-op.
I love their imaginations and creativity!! Thanks for this great giveaway!
We use your tutorials in my homeschool. My oldest has a love of art due to this, thank you so much for making art accesible to a non artist!
We like to try a lot of different art projects. I want to be able to freely choose their favorite.
We always have arts supplies out and available for open-ended creative endeavors. We check out lots of how-to books from the library and check out fellow homeschool sites on the Internet for inspiration! We try lots of techniques and styles but they all have their favorite.
Great giveaway! My kids love to paint, but we haven’t tried pastels yet. My daughter especially would love a new medium to work with. She draws every chance she gets. I’m excited to check out some of the tutorials with them.
I think my daughter has the most fun and reward from just drawing — and then coloring in what she has drawn with colored pencils. She enjoys drawing the natural world, especially flowers.
I’d love to try these!
We do a lot of painting when we need some art time. We’re still finding our groove with pastels. But we have fun. 🙂
I have loved your blog for awhile! Thanks for all the tutorials and encouragement! We have a small box of pastels; my kids both love art and would LOVE to win this set!
My kids have been artsy since the very beginning. I have a drawer filled with drawings and creations that i will never be able to part with. Just letting them have control has always fulfilledtheir creative need.
We do a little bit of everything…we try to link our history studies to our projects…using clay, various drawing and painting materials, or anything around the house!
We love Nana’s chalk art lessons?
My kids love watercolor, they also love coloring. With them being in preschool, we try to do age appropriate things while still letting them explore art the way they want to. They love art!
When I pulled my 12-year-old son out of public school two years ago, we discovered your blog and now share your love for chalk pastel art. I’ve been so thankful for all of your free tutorials, and we own your Sharks & Holidays books. We don’t get to it as much as I’d like to, but when we do it leaves a huge smile on my son’s face!
I’ve found that if I give my kids variations in art supplies they find ways to be creative. We all love chalk pastels, because they are so forgiving and easy to use. We’ve been exploring with acrylics on canvas too, and they really enjoyed that as well.
I love your chalk pastel tutorials for myself as for my children. We just discovered your website and all the wonderful art lessons. The lessons are easy for the beginner and it makes us feel like real artist. It would be great to win the chalk pastel giveaway to add more beautiful mediums to our art collection.
My kids love to paint!
My daughter loves arts aND crafts! ! I love to give her paints or other things to just create what SHE wants! I love seeing her change her style as she gets older!
From the time he was very young my son has had a passion for drawing. We tie art in to most of his school subjects because it helps him retain what he’s learned when he draws it out.
My daughter likes drawing and coloring
By having my kids experiment with different mediums and showing them the techniques of various artists throughout history encourages them that there is no one way to do art and to try something new and different as opposed to simply copying something they see.
My daughter loves to draw horses–every chance she gets!!!
This is such a wonderful opportunity! I found your site while searching for something other than finger paints and make your own play dough (my son had grown bored with those). As I read through your site, memories of my Nana came flooding back. She had beautiful paintings that she had created at one time in her life, but would never tell us why she decided to stop painting, Although she did foster a love of needlecrafts in us :-).
Seeing your Nana spend such loving time with the chalk paintings encouraged me to purchase my son (he will be 5 next week) a simple set of 12 chalks. His face lights up every time we attempt one of your tutorials. You have given him a way to express his feelings and he experimenting with the different colors and techniques. Thank you for igniting this passion within him
I just saw this. I would love to have this set! My kids are always going art of some sort and have all but used up my oil pastels, which are extremely messy by the way. 🙂
Art is great to add to any subject, especially when you use it on notebook pages. We draw for language arts, science, history, and even math. Art helps make learning fun. We use chalks, paint, and pencil colors.
My kids feel most like artists when they paint, although I think they might feel the same about using chalk pastels. Can’t wait to try them!
We do a lot of fingerprinting and stamping. Thank you for the giveaway!
So excited about this giveaway! I provide my children lessons and free time to explore to encourage them to be artists. Thank you for the opportunity!
Having kids on the spectrum, we have found art to be one of the BEST therapy tools! They draw non-stop and I can’t seem to keep enough supplies in my home. My one asd child in particular loves pastels! This would be a wonderful thing for both homeschool and therapy use!
Usually its when their Nana pulls out all of her paints! She was an art minor in college and she’s passed on the love of art to our children!
We have a friend from church that does art lessons for homeschool students. Since I don’t think on this artsy level, this has been a HUGE blessing for us. Our middle son (that is the artist in our family) has loved these and it’s encouraged him so much to just doodle and draw!
Hi Hodgepodge!
My almost 8yo son really loves following the art YouTube videos.
He booms with confidence upon completing!
I have been following you for years…
Thank you and Nana for all of your wonderful ebooks and videos, they are so much fun!
Blessings,
Cheryl & Josh
I leave supplies out so they can express themselves whenever they please. It’s always a gem to see what their little minds come up with!
Thanks for this giveaway opportunity. Love working with kids and chalk pastels.
I think it inspires them to see other children who aren’t necessarily great artists just giving it a try.
So excited about this giveaway! I keep a lot of art supplies on hand for my son. He loves to create! Thank you for the wonderful tutorials, they make it easy to share the joy of creating beautiful art with my kiddo!
Oh I love this! We try to encourage the kids to try their hand at a wide variety of art. We keep art supplies like crayons, colored pencils and watercolors always accessible to them.
I love this giveaway! My kids and I have been doing chalk art this school year from a few of your books. They especially love your tutorials. We would all LOVE the chance to get a big box of pastels!
My kids absolutely love to paint, do color by number, or even just draw whatever is in their imaginations! I think they would get really excited about trying out chalk pastels!
My child had always loved coloring. He joined a Co op last year, an art class. He experimented with many different kinds of mediums but his favorite was pastels.
We LOVE painting with chalk pastels. What a great giveaway!
They love anything to do with drawing. We try to keep a wide variety of supplies on hand for them to experiment and create. And they love to see their artwork displayed all over the house.
My kids love chalk pastels because they are so forgiving. You can hardly make too big of a mistake. It can always be fixed. We also enjoy painting.
Any art activity allows my daughter to know she is an artist. It’s just a matter of getting through the material she doesn’t enjoy to be able to do what she does enjoy.
Thanks so much for this opportunity. The kids and I are always trying new art forms. One likes machines and the other nature.
My daughter loves to draw, color, and paint! Thank you for the giveaway!!
This is a great giveaway and I hope I win!
All my kids have a sketchbook of their own that they are free to draw anything anytime. I also let them create whatever they like by having supplies out or easily accessable to them when the mood strikes. Sometimes kids just need the time and space to be creative. No lessons needed. They’re naturally creative from the start.
The best activities for encouraging that they are artists have always been the open-ended, process-oriented ones; the ones guided by their own interests and muses at the time. I simply provide the best materials I can afford and have them accessible to them (one preschooler, one fifth grader) for whenever they are inspired to create.
Thanks for the chance! Pastels would be a wonderful addition to our art tools.
I always try to encourage my children to see the art in the world around them. We love drawing,painting and we especially like taking something old and making into new. We never tried pastels until this year and both kiddos love it! My sons favorite was the tutorial on the tornado! Thank you so much!
My kids love to use chalk all over the driveway. ?
Thank you for such a wonderful giveaway!! My kids love your art lessons!
Drawing and painting are the two areas my sons feel most confident in their art skills. They love to look at other artist’s works and try to recreate them, as well as create their own original work. We’ve never used pastels before so that would be fun to try. Thanks!
Any art activity that interests my 10y/o son! We have oil pastels, but haven’t tried the chalk. I think he will like them better.
We’re always crafting, drawing, coloring. Thank you for the giveaway.
We use all kinds of art mediums…mostly drawing and paint. We would live to try chalk. Thanks for the great giveaway!!
This Monday, Columbus Day, we worked on Columbus Ships from American Landmarks: Chalk Pastel Art for All Ages. My children truly felt like artists. It was exciting for them to blend chalk pastel colors for the ocean and sky.
My son enjoys chalk mediums for art- I think because it’s so forgiving!
My girls like to doodle and they have a couple how to draw books. We are looking forward to trying chalk pastels. Thanks for the chance to win!
My 8 year old dd loves to draw and “create” things, she is always looking for cardboard to make something out of and really amazes me with what she comes up with!
My children love to use their art time to create cards and gifts for family and friends.
Thank you for your wonderful tutorials on YouTube. My daughter has really enjoyed learning pastel art, and it has inspired me too!
Our kids love the learn to draw books. They have recently been introduced to pastel chalk and LOVE it. We have a small set of 12, but are looking to add to our collection.
This is SUCH a great giveaway. I have one kiddo who KNOWS she is an artist, and one who is pretty convinced he is NOT an artist. We leave art supplies around the house, and these would go a LONG way to getting him to PLAY! Thanks so much!
My kids love art and crafts so this would help them enjoy some fun time. Thanks for the giveaway!
We have Completed the Simple Start to Chalk Pastels and Seasonal Chalk Pastels, and are working through the American Landmarks lessons this year! So far our first chalk pastels are holding up, but we would love to have a new set to share with our family!
My kids love your art tutorials! They would love this big box of chalk! We need more colors, and with 6 kids, more of every color!
I teach art class to several of my home schooled grandchildren and we have used many different art materials. I think the most recent project that made them feel like artists was a painting on perspective using acrylic paints.
My children love to use all kinds of materials and make their own creations. They love to display them and really feel good when they get compliments on their work.
Playing and being creative with chalk pastels can be educational as well. The child can learn their colors,too.
Marilyn
We enjoy using water color paints, as well as Prismacolor pencils. Lately, we started using more chalk pastels, and watching a lot of your tutorials.
Those chalk pastels would be a fantastic addition to our Homeschool Art lessons. Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Thank you!! 🙂
I try to have all types of art mediums in the house for my children to use. When my children come up with the ideas for a project on their own and create it. That is when my children think they are artists.
We love to follow your tutorials, it always encourages my kids when they see their completed projects. They are proud of being able to actually do it. Chalk pastels are one of our favorite mediums, thank you for the amazing giveaway!
My kids love painting, and I would like to widen their horizons with these pastels. I love this medium.
Pretty much anything involving paint makes my kids feel like artists. Hopefully chalk pastels will have the same effect!