How to Make Halloween Painted Rocks
Paint your own Halloween rocks with just a few simple materials! This tutorial will show you how to paint a jack-o-lantern and Frankenstein, or keep reading below for how to make more fun Halloween designs.
Yield: 2 Halloween painted rocks
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Smooth rocks
- Acrylic paint (white, orange, green)
- Acrylic paint markers (black, white, brown)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make a jack-o-lantern rock
- Begin by painting the top and sides of your rock white. This base coat will make it easier for coloured paint to show up on the rock, allowing you to do fewer coats. Allow to dry.
- Choose a colour for your rock. Our pumpkin rock is, of course, orange! Once the white paint is completely dry you can add a coat of this paint. Add a second coat, if necessary. Allow to dry between coats.
- Draw a jack-o-lantern face on the rock using a black acrylic paint pen.
- Use a brown paint pen to draw broken, curved lines to represent the ridges of the pumpkin.
- Then use green acrylic paint (or another paint pen) to draw the pumpkin's stem.
- Your jack-o-lantern rock is complete!
Step 3: Make a Frankenstein's monster rock
- Paint a white base coat on your rock and, once that's dry, cover the rock with green paint.
- Begin by drawing Frankenstein's spiky hairline with a black acrylic paint marker. Then draw a wide "U" shape for his brow line, an upside-down "U" for his nose, and a straight line on an angle for his mouth. Finally, draw stitch marks above his brow on one side.
- Fill in the hair (the top portion of the rock) with the black marker, and then use a white marker to draw his eyes, connected to the bottom of the brow line.
- Once the white marker is dry (it will only take a minute or so), add a coloured iris onto the white part of the eye (we used brown). Then grab the black marker again and add pupils on top of the brown.
- Your Frankenstein's monster rock is complete!
Step 4: Have fun painting more Halloween rocks
- There are so many fun Halloween characters you can paint! Try your hand at a ghost, a bat, or even a piece of candy corn. Read more details below about how to make these rocks.
Notes
Looking for more simple rock painting ideas? Here's a few of our favourites:
Cactus Painted Rocks
Ladybug Painted Rocks
Snowman Painted Rocks