11. Rock Monsters and Painted Pumpkins
Painting rocks is a relaxing and highly engaging craft that kids of all ages enjoy. Gather smooth, flat river rocks from your garden or a local park. Wash them thoroughly and let them dry in the sun. Provide your children with bright, multi-colored acrylic paints or paint pens. They can paint the rocks to look like miniature pumpkins by using bright orange paint and adding black jack-o’-lantern faces, or they can create quirky rock monsters with multiple eyes, jagged teeth, and colorful spots. For added texture, glue small yarn tufts to the tops of the rocks to look like crazy monster hair. These painted stones are incredibly durable and can be placed in your garden beds, along your front walkway, or used as festive paperweights inside the house.