How many of you have kids with a rock collection on their dressers or bookshelves?
Well today is your day friends! September 16th is National Collect Rocks Day ...(Ok seriously, who comes up with this stuff?)
Now I like to collect rocks as much as the next person, and when we cleaned out our house before moving we have no less than 487 tons of rocks in various bags, boxes and other collection forms around our house. some were from vacations. Some were from the "mine for precious gems" tourist trap places. Some were from kids school when Diamond Dave would come and they would get a bag of rocks.
But you know what rock activity has become popular the past few years? Rock painting.
You paint rocks with various acrylic paints, paint pens etc, and then when they dry you hide them in various places like parks, flower beds etc hoping others will find them. Some people will put a facebook group site on the rock, and when it is found people will take a picture and upload it to that FB site. Pretty cool. It is amazing how an easy, family friendly and artistic activity can make people so happy!
Here is a great introduction to Rockpainting 101 video from youtube.
New to Rock Painting? Here are some really artistic things you can do with rock painting! Beginner to advanced!
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