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How To Paint Rocks For The Holidays

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Looking for a fun holiday craft to make with your kids? This is Tonya, and I’m going to show you how to paint rocks with holiday pictures and inspirational messages to hide around your neighborhood. You and your kids will love this latest craft in our ongoing partnership with Testors.com.

This fun project is our first of four crafts we’ll be sharing as we host Testors Crafternoons for the next four weeks here at 5 Minutes for Mom. Check back with us each Wednesday for a new craft.

How To Paint Rocks For The Holidays


 

You now have 4 chances to win a Testors Craft Prize Pack worth $50.

These painted rocks are so much fun to make! You could invite a few neighborhood kids or friends over and have a painting party, then go out into the neighborhood to find them.

We wanted this project to be inspiring and to remind people what is truly important over the holiday season. We also wanted to help people remember the holidays aren’t about expensive gifts, but instead about giving things that matter so much more like kindness, joy, love, and friendship.

Supplies you need to paint rocks:

How To Paint Rocks

Just go for it! Painting rocks is such a simple craft that you can’t go wrong. When you show your kids how to paint rocks, emphasize how they can use their creativity and their painting doesn’t have to be perfect.

Here are some tips to help you and your kids get started painting rocks…

  1. Get your supplies ready before you start.
  2. Consider sketching some ideas on paper first.
  3. Provide your kids with a variety of paint colors and paintbrushes of different sizes.
  4. Collect rocks with flat surfaces or buy a bag of rocks to save time.
  5. Make sure you have lots of rocks to paint! If you have extra rocks, your kids won’t feel like they need to paint “the perfect” picture right away.

This is the perfect craft project to make with kids for the holidays. It will help remind them what’s truly important over the busy holiday season.

We decided to paint all of our rocks with an image of wrapped gift on one side, and then on the reverse side my daughter used a permanent marker to write an inspiring message.

Here are some thought starters for messages you may write on the rocks…

GIVE THE GIFT OF:

  • love
  • peace
  • happiness
  • forgiveness
  • joy
  • friendship
  • experiences
  • fun

Once your rocks are dry, head out into the neighborhood and leave them for others to find and to re-hide. They are sure to bring a smile to the face of the person who finds them.

Testors paints are the perfect addition to your holiday crafting. The Testors Craft Acrylic Paint comes in metallic, glitter, matte, and regular 2oz bottles and can be used on so many surfaces including glass, fabric, wood, clay, metal, plaster, and more.

What will you make this holiday season?

Take a look at my other Testors creations that are perfect for the holidays too:

Giveaway

Would you like to win a Testors Craft prize pack worth an approximate retail value of $50?

Leave us a comment telling us what types of holiday crafts you like to make with your kids. Then complete your entry using the form below.

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Products in the prize pack will be an assortment of Testors Craft products. Sorry to our Canadian friends, this giveaway is open to the US only.

 

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Looking for an easy holiday craft? See how to paint rocks with holiday pictures and inspirational messages to hide around your neighborhood. Sponsored by Testors. #paintedrocks #paintedrockideas

 

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Written by Tonya Staab, contributor at 5 Minutes for Mom
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71 Comments

  10. This is such a fun craft and activity to do with the kids. I know my kids would be thrilled to find one of these in the neighborhood.

  15. My son, my nieces and I love making all kinds of Christmas Crafts. We made Christmas Trees our of green paper plates and a Rudolph ornament from pop sickle sticks. Just to name a few.

  19. I like making my own Christmas wrapping paper and then add a store bought bow to the gift. A friend of mine showed me how to do this.

  20. We made ornaments as gifts for our neighbors and their teachers, mostly nature crafts such as collecting and painting pine cones and decorating them.

  27. I like to make ornaments for the Christmas Tree. Lots of fun to make and great memories to have when the kids are older.

  33. we liked to make stuff with pine cones, since this is the time of year they are readily available.

  35. I take my grandchildren I have 3 We go to festival of trees and we pick a Sunday and do gingerbread houses and boy do they love making them (eating the candy) lol

  36. I love baking Christmas cookies with her and making cards for soldiers and handmade gifts like sugar scrubs.

  40. I love Christmas crafting with my kiddos! My favorite has been making keepsake salt dough handprint ornaments. Love seeing their tiny hands through the years.

  42. We love rock painting! But we really love making handmade ornaments. Construction paper and paint are always in use at my home.

  43. My daughter and I just finished making live centerpieces with poinsettias and greenery. She really loved playing with the ribbon.

  44. Painting rocks? Seriously? Being a “Mommy” must be so mind-numbingly boring. I’m so glad I don’t have children.

    • I also am thankful that you have no children, FDSAJSKL! By not being a parent, you prevented more children suffering your lack of creativity, sensitivity or observation, exactly as you must have been neglected in your past. Congratulations to you and to all the children born to someone else.

  45. I like making gingerbread boys to hang on the tree. Mix glue and cinnamon, dry them out in the oven and hang with festive ribbon. They not only look sweet but they smell good too!

  46. I HAVE to have one of your amazing glittery light up trees made from drift wood. I absolutely love the idea for CHristmas presents!

  49. Hey, I paint rocks too! I belong to a local rock group, it’s a lot of fun. My kids and I have made many crafts and gifts for Christmas over the years. 🙂

  61. We enjoy making ornaments, and lots of snowflakes! oh and we can not forget good ole Santa, we make a few of him too

  64. We create crafts which are unique. For the holidays we cut out stars, menorahs, and paint them and then put them in the playroom and decorate the room with a banner.

  65. I’m a quilter, and I like to teach the kids in my life how to make simple sewn gifts, like placemats, or kennel quilts for their pets.