Painting & Searching for Rocks

Project Discipline: Arts & Crafts
​Ages: All ages!!
Difficulty level: Easy 
Supplies needed: paints, paintbrushes & rocks.  Alternate supply suggestions included in directions.

Step 1: Gather Your Supplies!

Head to your nearest beach or trail, and find some flat smooth rocks.  Gather up any paints you may have at home, and you'll need some paint brushes.  Don't have those?  Try sponges for paintbrushes, or markers instead of paints!  Experiment.
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Step 2: Let your creative juices flow!  

Paint along with your children, or let them paint themselves.  For older kids, challenge them with a specific theme (flowers, 4-H clovers, animals).
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Either way you start off, you'll be sure to be fighting over who gets the last rock by the end!

Step 3: Get Outside!

Find a cozy spot outside in your yard to hide your rocks.  You could also hide them inside if the weather is bad.    

Once all of the rocks have a nice spot, let the kids lose to find them. Chance are, they won't get hidden just once....with smiles likes this, those kids will want to keep finding them again and again!