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Have the people in your town adapted the fun new game of hiding and hunting rocks? Well, our town has and we have been really enjoying it! As a matter of fact, we recently got together with some friends from our local homeschool group for a Rock Painting Craft Day!
With the help of products from Oriental Trading we were able to successfully paint rocks for our children to hide.
We started by purchasing river rocks from the garden center at our local home improvement store. When we got the rocks home we took them outside and cleaned them in a tub with dish soap. We dried them and laid them in the sun for a while. Once they were dry we brought them into the house to be painted.
We painted our rocks with acrylic paint. Some of the children used paint pens to decorate their rocks. You can find those HERE. When the rocks had all dried the children put Mod Podge over the top of the rocks. This was to protect them and seal the paint to the rocks.
It was really quite simple!
The other items that we purchased at the Oriental Trading Craft & Hobby Supplies section for our Rock painting day were tablecloth, aprons and paint brushes.
We had so much fun painting our rocks and can’t wait to do it again! This was a great project for the kids and adults to do together. Hiding rocks and finding rocks is a great way to keep the kids active and outdoors as well.
I think Rock Painting is so much fun and a terrific craft. My sister-in-law makes lovely gifts with nice sayings on rocks. I would enjoy doing this too.
We love hiding rocks that we’ve painted. But I’ll be honest that I have saved my favorites and added them to my garden.
That’s a neat idea! We are thinking of having another rock painting craft day. We might have to paint some up for our garden too! 🙂
Wonderful I did this in elementary school, still have them to this day.
These are so cute and I will have to try this project with my granddaughter..She would love it!
This looks like a lot of fun. I see them around town once in awhile.
My friends daughter likes to draw on rocks, she doesn’t use paint.
My son did this at school and enjoyed it so much that we bought rocks to paint at home. Our town has a Facebook page where people paint and hide rocks.
I always wanted to do a ROCK PAINTING CRAFT. My sister-in-law painted some rocks and they came out lovely!
A friend lives by a beach and she does lovely painted shells. In Colorado we have to just do rocks.
This would be something fun for my son to do, he LOVES to paint
These pet rocks are a great and very simple idea!
It’s fun hunting for rocks to paint. That gets kids outside and searching.
My niece and nephew would love this craft!
This is a really great craft, that I never thought of doing with my nieces and nephews. I’ll have to shop around to get the painting supplies on sale and/or with coupons. It would be a fun activity over the holidays.
I love this idea and just think of what you can do with them after you paint them, make a walkway, use them in your garden or planter, paper holders, so many fun ways.
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Rock painting is fun. I like it because you can use rock collecting as learning and later useit a acraft. It is amazing what you ‘see’ in rocks!
Do a scavenger hunt for the rocks before you paint them.
My two oldest granddaughters like to paint rocks and leave them for other people to find.
I don’t have kids but I have done rock painting.
I have a friend on the East coast and her crafting usually involves sea shells.
I have been looking for ideals to do craft projects with my 3 yr old great niece. She loves to paint so this is easy and will make great gifts for her to give
I have never painted rocks before but this would be fun to do with my grandsons.
This looks like a fun craft for kids. Perfect for anyone right now since a lot of us are stuck at home.
While still social distancing it’s good to get outside to hunt for rocks.
I love this idea of having a rock painting party! I think its a creative way to allow the children to express themselves.
@tisonlyme143
My daughter always love painting rocks. So much fun and creative also!
I love it. I use those plastic tablecloths when we crafts too.