• How to make Prime painted rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks

    How to make Prime painted rocks

    March 21, 2023 - By 

    Both my kids have gone crazy for bottles of Prime! I’ve managed to buy a few of the flavours in Asda and Sainsbury’s but they are so hard to get hold of if you don’t want to spend over the asking price. Prime was developed by KSI & Logan Paul to refresh, replenish, and refuel. There are currently nine flavours, including Blue Raspberry, Lemon Lime and Grape. I haven’t managed to get my hands on any bottles of Prime for a while so I thought I would make my own, painted rock, versions. We love to decorate rocks and these…

  • Easy Among Us painted rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks

    Easy Among Us painted rocks

    November 22, 2020 - By 

    The weather has turned so cold that it’s been harder than usual to encourage the children outside. With shorter days it’s more important than ever to get outside at the weekend. I love getting my Vitamin D and love being outside on a sunny day. Thankfully my children can be persuaded to go on a walk with the promise of some geocaching and hiding painted rocks. This morning we headed to the Oxhey Park Sculpture Trail to hide some of our most recent Among Us painted rocks and look for geocaches. We used: Bag of smooth pebbles or rocks Selection…

  • Summer painted bee and ladybird rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks - Summer - World Bee Day

    Summer painted bee and ladybird rocks

    May 14, 2020 - By 

    With this lovely warm weather we are out and about a lot more. Being outside is good for the whole family and helps the kids to run off some of their endless energy. We’ve been decorating and hiding rocks for a while now and wanted to make some summer painted rocks. We used: Bag of smooth pebbles or rocks Selection of chalk pens Varnish to seal the painted rocks (we use Wilko Gloss Yacht Varnish) How to make painted bee and ladybird rocks: We always wash and dry our rocks before painting them, this makes sure there’s no dirt left…

  • NHS Rocks and Comfort Pebbles
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks

    NHS Rocks and Comfort Pebbles

    April 28, 2020 - By 

    We love painting and decorating rocks to hide where we live. It’s a really popular hobby where we live and we have a lovely, active Facebook group where we can share pics. My children love to decorate rocks too and it’s something we’ve been enjoying together after home schooling (which isn’t going brilliantly). Craft has always helped us escape and we are doing more than ever at the moment. Over the last few weeks we’ve created a fun window display with rainbows and Thank You’s to our lovely key workers. It’s become a bit of a talking point and I…

  • Love Hearts inspired painted rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks - Valentines Day crafts

    Love Hearts inspired painted rocks

    February 5, 2020 - By 

    We love making our own painted rocks. They are such a simple but fun craft that anyone can do With Valentine’s Day coming up next week, why not make a few Love Hearts inspired painted rocks? These are a calorie-free treat which everyone will love to find! We used: Bag of smooth pebbles or rocks Selection of posca pens Varnish to seal the painted rocks (we use Wilko Gloss Yacht Varnish) How to make Love Hearts inspired painted rocks First we washed our rocks in warm soapy water and left them to dry. Then we raided our craft supplies for…

  • Easy Baby Yoda painted rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks - Star Wars crafts

    Easy Baby Yoda painted rocks

    January 7, 2020 - By 

    We love Baby Yoda! We’ve already shared our Baby Yoda colouring sheet which my children just loved. Baby Yoda features in The Mandalorian, the latest Star Wars series which we can’t wait to watch. We love making and hiding painted rocks so we thought we would decorate some Baby Yoda painted rocks. Easy Baby Yoda painted rocks We used: Bag of smooth pebbles or rocks Selection of posca pens Varnish to seal the painted rocks (we use Wilko Gloss Yacht Varnish) Everyone loves Baby Yoda so we all had a go at designing our own Baby Yoda figures on the…

  • Christmas gnome painted rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks

    Christmas gnome painted rocks

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    We spent our honeymoon exploring Scandinavia. We loved Denmark, Sweden and Norway and hope we can go back one day. As well as lots of happy memories we came back with quite a few souvenirs from the different cities we visited, many of which were scandinavian gnomes, also known as tomtes or nisse. A tomte is a mythological creature from Scandinavian folklore, typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas season. As our honeymoon took place in late October it probably wasn’t surprising that the shops were full of these little creatures! We’ve faithfully put them out each year…

  • How to make Pokemon painted rocks
    Crafts for kids - Painted rocks - Pokemon Day crafts

    How to make Pokemon painted rocks

    August 30, 2019 - By 

    My 7 year old is currently obsessed by all things Pokemon. I think it started when we went and watched Detective Pikachu at the cinema and she has been spending her money on Pokemon Trading Cards and poke balls ever since! Yes, we all played Pokemon Go all over the Netherlands and Belgium the other week. Earlier in the summer we had some wet weather so used the time to make a new stash of painted rocks to hide in our local area. Our local Painted Rock group is really busy so we’ve been making lots of painted rocks to…

  • Super simple Tunnocks Caramel Wafer painted rocks
    Crafts for adults - Painted rocks

    Super simple Tunnocks Caramel Wafer painted rocks

    July 10, 2019 - By 

    My obsession with Tunnock’s Caramel Wafers started years ago when I first went to the University of St Andrews. I spent the best 5 years of my life there, especially when I discovered there was a student society dedicated to Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer. I quickly discovered the joy of Tunnock’s Tea Cakes and the other delicious products made at the Tunnock’s factory. Over the years I have been inspired by Tunnock’s and thought it was time I made some Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer pained rocks the easy way. Tunnocks Caramel Wafer painted rocks supplies Bag of smooth pebbles or rocks Box…