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Halloween Painted Rocks
by Amanda Formaro
Description: How to make easy painted rocks for Halloween.
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If you are looking for some inexpensive, easy crafts for your kids this
Halloween,
head out to your backyard to start the fun. Have the kids hunt around for
different
shaped rocks. Long, slender rocks for ghosts, oval shapes for spiders, and just
about
any stout rock will make a great pumpkin!
PUMPKIN
stout, roundish rock
orange tempura paint
black marker
small amount of raffia
3-4 silk leaves
tacky or hot glue
3/4" piece of green chenille stick
bits of Kleenex tissue
The texture of the rock for the pumpkin can be smooth, bumpy, or even jagged,
as was in our case. Before you begin, stand the rock up in the position you
would
like it to be when your craft is complete. Ours was a little tricky, we just
leveled
him off using the raffia and tissue.
Paint the rock orange and let it dry. Using a black marker, draw on pumpkin's
face.
Glue silk leaves to the bottom of your pumpkin. Using bits of Kleenex for
leveling and
bunches of raffia, glue rock onto "straw bed". Top off your pumpkin rock with
green
chenille for the stem by folding in half and gluing on top of pumpkin's head.
GHOST
long, slender rock
white tempura paint
black marker
handful of cotton batting
tacky or hot glue
white glitter glue
Paint rock white and let dry. Draw face onto ghost with black marker. Glue
cotton
batting to the bottom of the rock to give the appearance of a ghostly trail
following
him. Smear white glitter glue down the sides of the ghost.
SPIDER
oval rock
black tempura paint
pair of wiggle eyes
6-8 12"-long black chenille sticks
red glitter glue
small piece of paper plate or white paper
scissors
tacky or hot glue
Paint rock black and let dry. Wrap chenille sticks around body to secure legs
in place. Bend sticks to form legs. Glue chenille sticks in place on the bottom
of the rock. Glue on two wiggle eyes. Cut little fangs from paper plate or paper
and, using red glitter glue, glue onto rock-face, underneath wiggle eyes. use
red glitter glue to create a few drops of blood on fangs and paint around mouth
to finish up.
Editor's Note: Be sure to keep these cute crafts out of the reach of small
children under the age of 3 years. Wiggle eyes can be easily removed and swallowed, or
worse yet, choked upon.
Amanda Formaro, President
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