Painted Rocks with Sara M.

Today is the perfect day for rock collecting. Rocks are one of the best open-ended materials for young children. Gather many sizes for sorting and building. Collect various colors and patterns to sort and when they dry you can get a paintbrush and water to rewet. Use strong hold glue to make a 3D creation. Sara Maleski added these directions for painting rocks. Have fun and we'd love to see what you did with rocks this weekend.

Gather some rocks from the beach! I like to paint my rocks with white paint before I start with colors. Makes the designs much brighter!

Make your palette! I like to have every color out and ready. The paints shown here are acrylics. Watercolors work too, but are very light.

The image on the right is the finished product! I love to use stripes and dots. But the sky’s the limit! Rocks are a wonderful blank canvas. Be creative and have fun!

xo :) Sara Tall (: xo