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Posted By Katie On March 12, 2012 7 Comments

Beauty in painting rocks

Filed Under: Family Values Tagged With: family fun 7 Comments

T-shirt weather in early March is a rare treat on the prairie. Miss E and Miss A have had a friend to play with the past couple days and their first project together was collecting rocks outside and washing them. Then they got to work on the deck, painting rocks. 

I once painted rocks with my lifetime friend Sara with the best paint we owned, nail polish. We were age 4 and 6. We then proceeded to sell them on a street corner. Our only buyers were our dads but we basked in our painted rock business success.

EG, Miss A and Miss E

I didn’t plant the “selling idea” into Miss E’s head. We’ll save that for a lemonade stand summer day.

 But the girls did master painting rocks with nail polish.
It was a fantastic, fresh air weekend art project and now we have a treasure collection of beautiful painted rocks.
Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.  -Grey Livingston

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  1. TexWisGirl says

    March 12, 2012 at 2:54 am

    too cute! looks like great fun!

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  2. sally says

    March 12, 2012 at 3:32 am

    They’ll always remember this…nail polish is perfect because it lasts!

    My niece used fingernail polish to paint some round, smooth rocks on a beach in Maine, and we actually found one of them several years later.

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  3. Prairie Mother says

    March 12, 2012 at 11:54 am

    Too cute! I never thought of using nail polish, Yahoo would love that! Great idea.

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  4. MTWaggin says

    March 12, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    Yup, those girls aren’t having any fun at all! This weather was outstanding (when the wind wasn’t blowing us sideways). Looks like the girls had a great time with their play date!

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  5. ann says

    March 13, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    The girls sure had a good time.

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  6. Sara Hondl says

    March 13, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Love it!! Glad you are passing the art of rock painting down to the next generation. I think my Dad still has one of those beautiful rocks somewhere.

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  7. Michelle says

    March 14, 2012 at 1:06 am

    A fun project! Looks like they were loving it.

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