Painting Rocks
by Monica Resinger
Description: Painting rocks is a great summer activity for kids.
Painting rocks is something my kids and I occasionally enjoy. We get a lot
of our ideas from the ‘Painting on Rocks’ books, however, this is not
necessary.
Some ideas are:
~ Make address rocks for neighbors, friends or family by painting the rock a
color that coordinates with the house that you are making it for. Paint on
the address number and a few little flowers or other decorations.
~ Have the kids paint them into ‘creatures’ or insects to decorate your
garden.
~ Sometimes rocks come in unusual shapes such as hearts - accentuate that
shape with paint. My daughter once used fabric paint and outlined a heart-shaped
rock with one color, then kept making new heart shapes inside each new heart
in a different color. Some outlines she did as polka dots, some as dashed
lines and some as full lines. It was really cute, but best of all, she had fun
doing it.
~ Paint them into large flowers - sunflowers and daisies are easy flowers to
paint. You can set these into a planter for a ‘rock garden’.
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