10 Delightful DIY Painting Rock Crafts For Kids

Finding proper activities for our children can be difficult, especially in the summer. If you are puzzling over finding proper activities or how to spend time crafting together, I have a brilliant idea for you! Painting rocks or pebbles is a creative craft, and you can create various animals and creatures of them together, or make kids’ favorite characters. Let’s see what you can DIY.

Any fan of the Star Wars films knows what a Jawa is. They are small humanoids that are usually only about 3 feet tall. They inhabit the desert planet of Tatooine and are known as scavengers of machinery, so be sure to keep your droids close! These Star Wars Jawa rocks are just one of the easy crafts for kids that you can make this summer.

There’s much fun making this Flamingo puzzle! This one’s perfect for summer and includes the crafty addition of a fluffy handmade pompom. You mainly just need rocks, yarn and paint to make this creative Flamingo rock puzzle.

Summer is a great time to spend outside, especially on the beaches. We love ocean days building sand castles and scouring for rocks to take home as souvenirs. This adorable rock fish craft is a fun invitation to create kids. Simply lay out paints, markers and rocks and see what they can come up with.

The painted rocks are a creative project that has taken the nation by force, with the number one goal to make someone smile and brighten their day. Participating is something any one of any age can do, all you have to do is find one! These rocks are created using vibrant colors, guaranteed to brighten someone’s day. There are unicorn rocks, Frozen, rainbows, and inspirational quotes.

Did you have a pet rock as a kid? There some really fun adult version cactus rocks and thought it would be fun to make pet cactus rocks for kids.  Kids will love to paint and pick out their pet cactus rock for this easy craft project! How much cuter can these pet cactus rocks be? And they are so easy to make too!

Here’s another kids’ puzzle made of rocks. It’s a rock giraffe but not just a painted giraffe on a rock, and each rock piece fits together to create a cute animal giraffe! What’s great about this project is that you can involve the kids in painting rocks which is pretty simple to do and fun for them! If they are old enough, they can help add the spots with markers or paint and draw on the face. If not you can easily handle those details.

Help your kid to learn alphabet making a rock alphabet – it’s a fun way to teach a toddlers letters in a bright, whimsical way. You may choose any colors and prints you like and your kids are invited to paint these rocks.

Painting on rocks is a fun summer craft! The authors used two different kinds of paint, both very well suited for this purpose, also for outdoor use. They turned the pebbles into a game of Tic Tac Toe with 4 pc of bamboo skewers as grid. Both the pebbles and the skewers are easy to bring if your going on a trip. You can also draw the grid with a pen and paper.

Do your kids love minions? If they like Despicable Me, make cool minions in jail painting rocks. Invite your kids to make minions together and let them play and have fun after finishing!

These fun garden rock caterpillars are great for kids, go find some rocks in the garden! This project is great for remembering your childhood and giving your children a piece of it, too. This fun project is a great way to get your kids excited about the garden! Creating their own garden rock caterpillar to “guard” the garden is a fun activity for the whole family. It’s also inexpensive and easy! And children can help gather up the needed supplies!