After moving to the Netherlands, we began noticing colorful painted rocks during our strolls. Curious, we soon learned about the widespread “Joyful Stones” initiative, inspired by The Kindness Rocks Project. This movement involves people leaving behind vibrantly painted rocks to spread smiles and joy. Emily took great delight in discovering these hidden treasures, her face lighting up with every find. It wasn’t long before we were not only hunting for these stones but also painting and hiding our own. Emily was completely on board with the idea of creating our own joyful stones, even though I’ve always been challenged when it comes to crafts.
As I tried to think of designs that even a non-artist like me could manage, Emily kept introducing new themes she picked up from preschool.
“Mom, we talked about spring today. Can we paint a spring-themed stone?”
“We learned about houses. Can you paint a house for me? I want to show my teachers!” (I bet that would make a unique Teacher’s Day gift.)
“How about a design for the water theme?”
While I felt overwhelmed by her creative spurts, especially given my limited drawing skills, I found salvation in Pinterest. It’s a goldmine for those like me, offering countless easy-to-follow ideas for painting our joyful stones.
Monsters
I like to color most of these pleased stones as a result of you may’t mess them up. No matter you do, they’ll nonetheless seem like monsters. Two eyes, three, 4, doesn’t matter. Massive mouths, teethy mouths or crooked ones, nonetheless doesn’t matter. Your little ones will love arising 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, they usually had been extraordinarily straightforward to do as a result of all of the minions are versatile so you may afford to make some errors.
Bees
One other considered one of our favorites as it’s straightforward to make even for a four-year previous and me. It isn’t that onerous to color pleased stones when you discover the precise concepts that even I could make.
Ladybugs
Just like bees, ladybugs rocks are straightforward to make. A very powerful factor for us is that they provide 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 straightforward to color. I consistently mess up their nostril they usually nonetheless look lovely.
Mandala
This can be a good thought to entertain youngsters 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 pleased stones generally is a enjoyable exercise for the adults and the youngsters. Simply be warned, as soon as your youngsters get the artistic bug they’ll consistently provide you with new concepts of what to color and you’ll have to step up your sport.