How to Make Santa Painted Rocks
Have fun making these festive Santa painted rocks! It's such a great rock painting craft for beginners, and super easy for both kids and adults.
Yield: 1 Santa painted rock
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Smooth rocks
- White acrylic paint
- Peach acrylic paint (or other skin tone acrylic paint)
- Red acrylic paint
- Black paint pen
- Small white pom pom
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Paint your rock white
- Paint one side of your rock white. Let it dry, then paint the other side.Repeat, adding 2 to 3 coats of white paint total (until you're happy with the coverage).
Step 3: Paint Santa's hat and face
- Paint the top 1/3 of your rock red. Remember to paint both the front and back.
- Paint a small peach coloured oval in the middle of the rock (on one side only). Make sure you leave a strip of white paint between the red and the peach. This is Santa's face.Allow the paint to dry.
- Paint a round red nose at the bottom center of the peach oval, overlapping into the white a bit.
- Draw 2 eyes in the peach oval using a black paint pen.(If you feel comfortable using a fine tip paintbrush you can use regular black acrylic paint.)
- Draw a smiley mouth just below the nose.
Step 4: Add a pom pom to the hat
- Add hot glue to a small white pom pom. Press it to the top of the red painted section, finishing off Santa's hat.
- Your Santa painted rock is complete!
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Notes
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