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Rock Painting

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Materials Needed:
-Acrylic Paint (best if suitable for outdoors)
-Jar of water to rinse brush
-Paper Towel
-Small paint brushes
-Pencils
​-Black Sharpie Marker
-Many Rocks! Ideally smooth surface round rocks...ideally 2-3 per student
-Varnish (manipulated by adults only) or mod podge for kids to manipulate

Classroom Set-up

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Drawing Table
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Painting Table
         The ideal set-up would be to have one table for drawing and the other for painting. The drawing table would have paper, pencils, and coloring pencils so that students can trace their rocks on the paper and draw a dessin for them. The table can also contain reference books with images of painted rocks to inspire the students. The painting table  would have all the painting supplies such as aprons, jars of water, brushes and acrylic paints. I had a 3rd table so I also created a material table for the paints, so there would be more room on my painting table. 

Step 1: Draw on the paper an outline of your rock (tracing rock)

  • After you have chosen your rock, place your rock directly on the white paper. Using a pencil trace 1 or 2 outlines of the rock. Then using colored pencils and and pencil, draw the image you wish for your rock. In this case we were inspired to draw bugs, which is easier for young children. Older children could attempt more complex images. 
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Student Age 5 drawing a rock dessin
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Student Age 5 drawing a rock dessin

Step 2: Using a black Sharpie, draw the image you want on your rock

  • Using the drawing you have made, recreate the image on the rock. It helps to also write down the colors you will be needing. 
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My quick Prototype
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Student Age 5
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Student Age 11
Student Age 7

Step 3: Paint your Rock

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Step 4: Let Rocks Dry

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Step 5: Apply  Outdoor Varnish (applied by adult) or Mod Podge (safer for kids), and let dry

Student Artworks

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Student Age 7
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Student Age 11
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Student Age 5
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Student Age 5
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Finished Student Rocks
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The Students and their Rocks

My Examples of Painted Rocks

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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
    • Artists that Inspire Me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
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    • Skulls & Skeleton
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      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
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    • Abstract & other
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    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
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    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
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      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
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        • Watercolor Snowflake
      • Painting: Rock Painting
      • Acrylic Pouring
      • Painting: Birch Tree
      • Australian Dot Painting
      • Coffee Art
      • Pointillism Painting
      • Drawing Activities >
        • Introductory Lesson
        • Collaborative Doodle
        • Drawing: 3D Hands
        • Scratch Art Drawing
        • Ancient Egypt Art
        • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories
        • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
        • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
        • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Lesson: Drawing Lines
        • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Drawing : Word Art
        • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
      • Door Mural Project
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