Kid's Art Craft: Painting Rocks for the Garden ~ Some ideas for making a mini garden for & with your kids

It is great to set up a craft for your kids that you can actually use and enjoy later. Painting rocks is one of those special crafts. We used acrylic craft paint and spray it with a shellac to preserve the paint, otherwise it will wash off in the rain. The stones make nice garden ornaments and great gifts for family and friends.

Here are some tips and ideas for painting your rocks:

• use a separate paint brush for each color
• paint garden insects, ladybugs, birds, butterflies, faeries on your rocks
• paint each rock a different color and make a rainbow
• try painting words on rocks
• make a mandala with different color rocks and patterns radiating out into a circle
• place your painted rocks in your kids' very own mini garden with kid friendly plants, vegetables, and flowers
• paint different vegetables on your rocks then mark the rows of your vegetable garden with them
• paint your kids' names on the rocks
• paint different weather scenes on your rocks: sun, rain, wind, snow, lightening . . .
  

Painting outside, Marina

Marina painted beach wood, sea shells, and various sized rocks

Grandma's (Nanny's) Magic Garden Marker, by Candice

Butterfly, by Marina

Star in the night sky, by Marina

butterfly