If you children are anything like mine then they will always return form an outing with some sort of treasure. We are lucky to live five minutes from a beach and I have to check the boys pockets each time we come home as they always have stones in them.

Stones or beach pebbles are so tactile and make a great crafting and activity material and I am going to be using them for this week’s something for the weekend, so do come back on Friday to see what we have been doing with the ones they collected this weekend.

One of our most favourite things to do with stones is to add them to our memory jar.

Rock Painting Supplies

When you are painting rocks with children then I would suggest that they wear old clothes and that you protect your work service It also pays to teach children to help clean up including washing their paint brush at the end. I do this outside with an old bucket filled with water. When it comes to using a spray sealer then that needs to be in a well-ventilated area.

When it comes to acrylic paint pens, they are not all made equally and we have been using Ohuhu Acrylic Pens and are really impressed with them. Not only are they superb quality, but they also duel nib. You get 15 base colours, 9 metallic and 6 fluorescent colours and they are supersaturated and work really well on both dark and light backgrounds. Pens are so much easier when it comes to decorating rocks and stones with kids.

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Memory Stones

Memory stones are so simple to make, but are perfect for using to encourage crafting and also to help instill memories in children. We make them each summer to record what we have done and the boys adore making them.

All you need are some pens, sharpies are great for this and some stones, oh and a jar to put them in.

We like to place them in a clear jar so we can look at them and watch as they increase over the summer.

Story Stones

When I saw this great activity over at Happy Hooligans I knew I had to include it. You do not need any artistic ability just some pictures and glue. Jackie explains how she did it, so go and take a look.