Upon our relocation to the Netherlands, we began spotting painted rocks on our walks. We soon discovered a prominent “Happy Stones” movement (The Kindness Rocks Project) nearby. This community-led initiative involved individuals leaving hand-painted stones for others to find, spreading joy and positivity. Emily was always excited to hunt for these hidden treasures and her face lit up every time we found one. It wasn’t long before we started painting and placing stones ourselves. Emily loved the concept of creating these joy-filled stones for others. However, if my old art teacher saw my attempts, they might’ve had reservations; after all, artistic crafting isn’t my forte.
While I tried to come up with simple designs given my artistic constraints, Emily never ran out of ideas, often inspired by her preschool lessons.
“Mom, since we talked about spring at school, could we create a stone themed around it?”
“Today’s lesson was on houses. Can you try painting one? I’d like to present it to my teachers!” (What a unique teacher’s day gift that would be.)
“What about a design centered around water?”
Keeping pace with her excitement and innovative ideas was a challenge due to my sketching struggles. But, Pinterest proved to be a lifesaver, providing endless ideas for our delightful stone painting journey.
Monsters
I like to color a lot of these completely happy stones as a result of you may’t mess them up. No matter you do, they are going to nonetheless appear like monsters. Two eyes, three, 4, doesn’t matter. Large mouths, teethy mouths or crooked ones, nonetheless doesn’t matter. Your little ones will love developing with new concepts.
Minions
Minions are all of the craze now, particularly with a brand new film. The second she seen the posters she determined she desires to strive the out, and so they have been extraordinarily simple to do as a result of all of the minions are versatile so you may afford to make some errors.
Bees
One other certainly one of our favorites as it’s simple to make even for a four-year previous and me. It’s not that onerous to color completely happy stones in the event you discover the best concepts that even I could make.
Ladybugs
Much like bees, ladybugs rocks are simple to make. A very powerful factor for us is that they offer us the chance to be artistic and blend it up with colours and their spots.
Penguins
One other member of the animal kingdom, penguins are extraordinarily simple to color. I always mess up their nostril and so they nonetheless look lovely.
Mandala
This can be a good thought to entertain children as they are often as artistic and messy as they need. They simply have to let their creativeness lead them and simply dot, dot, dot on the stone.
Portray completely happy stones could be a enjoyable exercise for the adults and the kids. Simply be warned, as soon as your children get the artistic bug they are going to always provide you with new concepts of what to color and you’ll have to step up your sport.