Stone Painting for Kids: Designs to Spark Your Creativity

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher This follow-up to the bestselling Art of Stone Painting offers a kid-friendly version of an engaging activity that helps promote creativity. Popular stone artist F. Sehnaz Bac, a seasoned archaeologist who markets her painted Sassi dell’Adriatico (Stones of the Adriatic) on Etsy, presents step-by-step instructions for simple projects, accompanied by full-color photographs. Her introduction explains how to find and choose stones, which kinds of materials and tools are safe for kids to use, how to set up a workspace, simple techniques, and other helpful tips. A splendid variety of patterns begins with illustrations of basic shapes and designs for human figures and faces, animals, numbers and letters, and natural motifs—flowers, trees, and stars. Other activities include painting stones for games such as tic-tac-toe, chess, and dominoes. Kids will learn lettering techniques for writing names and words on pebbles and how to design holiday-themed decorations. They'll also discover how to assemble multiple stones for picture-making and story-telling.

As our C&Y team is always looking for affordable crafts, what is better than rocks + paint? This book gives many great ideas of things to paint or for games to play with painted stones. The paintings are pretty complex so I would say that many would be for older kids with more developed painting skills but nonetheless a good book with great, affordable ideas.