Garden Problem or Garden Solution?

When digging up soil for that budding aspiration of a garden you have in your head you may find all sorts of rocks. Well, ABMS found a craft that may help you put them to good use, and be helpful all at the same time. You can chose to do this craft on your own or if you have some crafty kids, by goodness put them to work! Besides this project is way more fun than pulling weeds.

Garden Stones

Total Time Needed:

Afternoon Or Evening

This clever craft not only dresses up your garden (and helps you ID all the newly sprouted seedlings in your vegetable patch), it also finally offers a way to use that annual crop of garden rocks.

Materials

• Smooth rocks in various shapes and sizes
• Waterproof acrylic paints and brushes

• Puffy paint (optional)

Instructions

1. When the base coat is dry, your child can decorate the rocks with the name of the appropriate flower or vegetable. In addition to row markers, we also created some purely decorative rocks (for example, a "welcome to my garden" rock). For flourishes and lettering, we especially liked the look of puffy paint. When the paint is dry, place your rocks in the garden
2. Rinse the rocks to remove any dirt and let them dry. Apply a base coat of acrylic paint to the top and sides of each rock. We painted our rocks to match the colors of the vegetables themselves.