Thanksgiving Day Story Stones Painting Tutorial from Artistro

Enjoy the fun of Thanksgiving with this set of Holiday Season story rocks! Story Stones can be used by parents or educators to encourage creativity. These wonderful tools promote language growth, early literacy, social communication, and engagement in imaginative play. The set also includes kindness rocks to teach children about the Kindness Rocks project.

For this project you will need:

• 6 rocks approximately the same size
• Orange, white, black, green, brown, yellow paints.
• Brush
• Black marker
• Tote bag to keep the set together

 Let’s learn how to paint turkey on the rock!

1. Take a rock from a kit. If you use found stones don’t forget to clean and dry them.

2. Paint the rock beige (mix brown and white paint, add some yellow). Let the rock dry.

3. Draw turkey body with brown.

4. Add feathers and legs; outline the body with black marker.

5. Color the turkey, draw eyes and beak.

Now, let’s learn how to create Kindness rock for Thanksgiving.

1. Take a rock from a kit. If you use found stones don’t forget to clean and dry them.

2. Paint the rock yellow (mix yellow and white paints). Let the rock dry.

3. Add a phrase on the rock with black marker.

4. Decorate the phrase with leaves: draw black outline with marker and color the leaves.



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