Mix & Match Painted Rock Faces
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Painted rock faces are a wonderful nature craft to do as we are nearing Earth Day!
We had so much fun making these painted rock faces- and they were so easy to make!
How to Make the Painted Rock Faces:
To start, we went outside and collected some mostly flat rocks. Then we washed them off and let them dry in the sunshine. We are lucky to live in a rocky area, so rocks are easy to come by. (Perks of living on a mountain!)
Next, we put out some newspaper and began painting the rocks into our silly little faces. We used an acrylic paint to make them more durable. Â My kids had fun coming up with different facial features and ideas for the painted rock faces. You can really get creative here!
For the eyes, try to find some rocks that are similar sizes and make a pair of eyes that match. Make a variety of shapes, colors and expressions so that you can have lots of fun mixing the facial features around.
When the rocks are dry, start building faces with them. Â It’s like a giant never ending puzzle or art project! Â Use other parts of nature to make the hair and the heads. We used leaves, twigs, brush, grass, moss, and more!
We really enjoyed assembling the faces and adding leaves or moss or twigs for hair.
What was fun about this project is that my kids then began making up silly stories about the characters they created with their rock faces. It really go their creative juices flowing.
Aren’t these Painted Rock Faces adorable? Â I really love the way my kids painted these faces! Â You could glaze them with a varnish to make them last a lot longer, too.
This is AWESOME (and so clever)! I love it! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love it! Thank you for sharing. I’ve been thinking about having my kids paint rocks. Need to go buy paint now.
This is a really cute idea and we love doing things with nature. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Pinned this!! This will be seen on a playschool blog someday!! Thanks for sharing with us at Eco-Kids Tuesday!! Hope to see you again next week!
Brilliant idea!
How clever and fun. Love this! I’ll be featuring this post as part of my Earth Day Activities for Kids: Upcycling roundup from the Weekly Kids Co-Op. xoxo P
How fun! We have painted rocks, but never into something that could be played with like these. Thanks for the idea I’m sure my son will enjoy.
These are adorable, love the mix n’ match concept! looks like this activity would bring on mega smiles!
Hi stopping by from the UBH! Love this idea! I am pinning it right now! Thanks for popping by my blog! Happy Schooling!
How fun! These would be great for teaching children how to develop characters for stories they make up. Thanks for sharing at Creative Learning.
These are just so stinkin’ cute and I am sure you had fun making them. am pinning this to my Look What We Did Art board. Thanks for linking them on HammockTracks and I look forward to seeing what you are working on this week.
This is great! I featured this post at Mom’s Library on iGameMom http://ow.ly/jWpQi
Thanks for linking up. This week’s link is up, please come link up more!
SO clever! What a fun Mr. Potato type activity for outdoors! LOVE it!
Thanks so much for linking it up at TGIF!
I am featuring this at TGIF today here: http://www.123homeschool4me.com/2013/04/tgif-linky-party-71.html
Thanks again for sharing with all of us. Feel free to grab an I was featured button if you like and I hope to see you linked up again later today!
Beth =)
Those are so cute!! I love it! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!