You can make simple but incredibly effective crafts for your garden with your own hands from ordinary stones. in this case, the stones can be painted with paints, felt-tip pens, combined with metal, or simply assembled into an interesting composition.
DIY garden crafts. Painting stones master class.
In the simplest case, you can simply select the stones you like and paint them with acrylic paint, applying a simple design. Such crafts for the garden are already cute, and you can easily make them with your children.
We will tell you a more advanced version of beautiful painting on stone. In fact, this is also not difficult, it just requires knowledge of basic techniques. 
Do-it-yourself garden crafts made from stones. Painting with felt-tip pens.
If you are afraid to work with paints, or the idea of buying acrylic paints in a wide range of colors is not acceptable to you, you can paint the stones with felt-tip pens, where white is a regular masking marker.
For example, such DIY crafts in the form of owls will decorate any garden. A simple diagram for you on how to draw an owl.
You can come up with drawings and funny inscriptions yourself.
or choose any drawing and transfer it using carbon paper onto a stone, and then paint it with a felt-tip pen like regular coloring books.
You can combine paints with a felt-tip pen: paints for the background, a felt-tip pen for finer details.
To ensure that these handmade stone crafts last a long time, cover them with a layer of varnish on top. 
DIY garden crafts. We make a “pond” of painted fish.
You can make spectacular crafts for your garden with your own hands from stones painted with fish. 
It is enough to put such pebbles in any vessel with water, and you already have an impromptu small pond in the garden.
For those who doubt their artistic talents, we offer a master class on how to draw a fish.
Or you can use ready-made drawings.
When coated with varnish, these stones can create a cute, unexpected effect in any corner of the garden - near a bench, near a gazebo or next to a path.
Interesting DIY garden crafts made from stones.
Upon careful examination, each of us will be able to see in an ordinary stone that mysterious smile that this charming garden cat smiles at us.
If you combine stone with metal, you will get even more interesting figurines for the garden, such as these original buffalos.
You can make DIY garden crafts from sea pebbles, adding an interesting shape using soft wire.
Beautiful little frogs are simply assembled from several stones, which are placed together on sealant or cement.
As children, we all made simple crafts from various natural materials, and why don’t we transfer our skills to the garden? After all, you can create incredibly beautiful crafts for your dacha with your own hands literally from what is lying under our feet.
After all, any creative process has not only practical, but also emotional results. The ability to see beauty in small things and in everyday materials will make each of us richer.
Perhaps our selection of photographs will help you find your idea for a summer house, and, based on what materials you have at hand now, under the pressure of inspiration, you will create something no less amazing.
In addition, garden crafts made from stones are more durable and unpretentious than crafts made from any other material.
Not only the author himself, but also your friends and acquaintances who come to your dacha will enjoy the funny figures for the dacha.
And imagination in creativity really has no boundaries.
The most difficult idea is not always the most interesting. Just put the stones that you brought from the sea in the shape of a foot, and you already have a real art object in your dacha.
Creating balanced compositions from stones is possible only for the most patient. Often, such stone crafts are kept in fragile balance thanks to the notches and hollows in each of the stones. But, if you want to prolong this short-lived beauty, you can seal the stones together with sealant.
Do-it-yourself garden crafts made from stones are suitable for people who are outwardly stern and pedantic, but with a talented and attentive heart, open to every shade of beauty in nature.
DIY drawings (mosaics) made of stones (pebbles) for children. Photo.
Children's paintings, panels and drawings made of stones
Few children have not brought home a beautiful pebble at least once. And so that the pebbles do not just lie there, but are useful, you can make a game out of them - a mosaic (constructor): lay out various images, and then take them apart and create new ones.
Stones (pebbles) for this can be anything: sea, or the most common, found near a river, road, brought for repairs or construction.
If you glue them with super glue or a glue gun to cardboard, you will get panels or pictures made of stones. This activity develops fine motor skills, creative thinking, and perseverance. Moreover, panels and paintings made of stones are not just children's fun. Adult masters create real masterpieces using this technique.
DIY stone drawings for 1st grade
To show children the diversity of one of the types of children's creativity made from natural materials, in many schools, children in the 1st grade during a lesson on the world around them are given homework to make drawings from stones with their own hands, and then take photographs of their work and bring the photo.
Since the drawings themselves do not need to be brought to school, the background for them can be made like this:
- use cardboard, paper, fabric, etc. as a background for the drawing.
- lay out the drawing outdoors: on the ground or in the sand
If you create patterns and drawings from stones not on paper, but on the ground or sand, you will get works using the technique, which, although not durable, can be admired by all random passers-by.
The drawing itself can also be done in different ways:
- lay out the entire image with stones along with the internal parts (mosaic)
- lay out stones only on the outline of the image
- lay out the outline of the image and some of its parts with stones
- take into account or not take into account the color of stones when drawing up an image
The image can be laid out with stones without preliminary sketches or a sketch with an outline can be made. If a child finds it difficult to come up with a plot for such a drawing or is somehow not satisfied with the outline he has drawn, you can find on the Internet and print out the simplest coloring book for kids with a minimum number of small details, and then line it with stones.
Drawings of stones for children on paper
As an example, I’ll show you a few photos of my daughter and I’s drawings made from stones.
Snail - drawing from stones
Butterfly - drawing from stones
Composition of stones: flowers and butterfly
Composition of stones: sun, clouds, Christmas tree, duckling
Dogs - crafts made from stones
My daughter and I made the next few crafts with dogs made from stones like this:
These are the compositions we came up with (in one of them, in addition to stones, my daughter used a straw).
Man with a dog on a leash
Dog playing with a ball
Meeting on the track
Walk
Autumn pictures made of stones
For the autumn-themed picture, we found a handful of small stones in yellow, orange and brown colors to lay out the base of the clearing - earth with fallen leaves, as well as several larger stones (for the butterfly, dragonfly and mushrooms).
From these stones the picture “Mushroom Meadow” was created.
Mushroom clearing
And the picture "Autumn Flower".
autumn flower
And then, when the youngest daughter began to play with these pebbles: sorting them out, pouring them into a toy bowl, etc., the eldest daughter made a few more simple figures. On paper, especially colored paper, they would have looked better than on oilcloth, and the lighting left much to be desired, so the photo is of poor quality. But as an example, I will show these figures.
From left to right and top to bottom: bird, bunny, ducks, cat, giraffe.
Plots for Halloween
And my daughter made these figures using painted details: a witch on a broom, an owl, a cat, a pumpkin and some kind of tailed robber.
The cat and the owl are closer. The owl's eyes and beak are made of paper.
Children's drawings with stones on the street
Several works were received using stones created by children during their walk. These ideas can be used with children both to do their homework on the world around them, and to help them spend time outside during the summer (and maybe not only in the summer).
Many thanks to the participants for these ideas and photos!
Drawing made from stones and other natural materials
The work "Dragon" was completed Senkina Anastasia(5.9 years old) and Senkin Yaroslav (2.8 years old) from Moscow. When creating it, not only stones were used, but also other natural materials: twigs, leaves, flower petals.
Painting with stones
The work "Drawings with stones" with a little help from Yulia's mother was completed by Kolya Kucheryavyi, 4 years old, St. Petersburg.
Julia told how she and Kolya created these drawings:
"Good afternoon! I decided to show you how we learn to draw simple pictures using natural materials, namely stones.
Coming to the lake one fine day with my child, we thoughtlessly, but with pleasure, simply threw pebbles into the water, and then I invited my son to build a castle out of sand and stones, but my son didn’t want to... Well, he didn’t want to, and okay, work for fantasies are indeed not easy. And then the idea came: to draw a castle! And then a boat, a fish and even a turtle.
It was here that the child took great pleasure in laying out drawings with stones, which he then did not mind taking apart and laying out a new pattern. And the secret is that the drawing must be drawn in advance with a stick or finger on wet sand (this is done by an adult). This is such a simple coloring!"
Street, sea or building stones will be an excellent basis for a wide variety of crafts, from unusual panels, decorative stands to decoupage and interesting toys. Perfectly combined with shells, beads, beads, fabric or grains, small pebbles or large cobblestones easily turn into stylish and colorful interior or garden decorations.
Hardness, smoothness and absolute unpretentiousness make this material an ideal basis for a variety of creative directions.
Below are ideas for the most beautiful crafts made from stones with detailed descriptions, instructions and step-by-step photographs - all you have to do is choose the one you like and go in search of the necessary materials.
Let's do decoupage
Easy crafts made from stones for children include products made using the decoupage technique, when a three-dimensional pattern is applied to the surface. Despite the ease of production, the end result is a beautiful decoration.
The algorithm looks like this:
- Prepare materials: cobblestones, paper napkin with a bright pattern, glue, water-based emulsion, paints, clear varnish.
- Apply primer to the washed stone and dry.
- Separate the layer with the pattern from the entire napkin.
- Cut out the image.
- Apply glue to the back of the napkin and glue, moving from the center to the edges, avoiding the appearance of folds.
- Wait until completely dry.
- Color the background and add a suitable drawing.
- Cover with varnish.
- Decorate with branches, pine cones or leaves.
We work with paints
Simple options include painted pebbles, which with the help of paints are transformed into toy animals, insects or fancy accessories.
At the same time, you can turn any stone into an interesting and bright product if you have the necessary materials on hand and at least a little drawing skill. The following photographs of crafts made from stones in the form of a ladybug, a flower, a turtle, a cat, and a chicken will help in this matter.
The main thing is to pay due attention to details, surroundings and do not forget to complement the image with characteristic accessories and furnishings.
Assembling the composition
Having dealt with coloring the pebbles, you can go further and assemble a whole composition, for example, a “fake cactus”.
Such a master class on crafts made from stones involves the following steps:
- Select oblong, slightly flattened stones of varying lengths.
- Paint them green, and after drying, use white gouache or a felt-tip pen to draw the characteristic texture of a cactus: “stars”, lines, dots.
- Fill a suitable sized flower pot with sand or soil.
- Insert stones to imitate the arrangement of a cactus.
- Cover areas of soil or sand with small pebbles.
We lay out the panel
More painstaking DIY stone crafts include various panels and paintings, the images of which are assembled from a variety of small pebbles.
This work will require a lot of time, patience and material, but with due diligence you will get a truly beautiful interior decoration.
The principle of making a wall composition is as follows:
- Find a suitable image on the Internet, print it according to the dimensions of the existing frame.
- Paste the picture into the frame.
- Break the stones into small pieces.
- Based on the drawing, paint the pebbles and glue them to the appropriate places on top of the paper.
- Paint the voids with a suitable color paint.
- Coat the product with varnish.
Decorating items
Ideas for crafts related to decorating various objects: flower pots, jars or bottles will be suitable for smooth sea stones.
So, in order to give an empty bottle charm and make it into an original piece of furniture, you need to do the following:
- Clean the bottle from dirt, labels and glue.
- Cover the surface with an even layer of plasticine 0.5 cm thick.
- Press the stones into the plasticine, removing excess viscous mass with a knife.
- Make a pattern, ornament or cover it with plain stones.
- Fill the joints and resulting voids with beads, seed beads or rhinestones.
- Decorate with rope or satin ribbon.
Other items, such as photo frames, are decorated in a similar way. In this case, it is necessary to apply glue around the perimeter and carefully fix the stones, and close the gaps between them with twine or rhinestones.
We make rugs and coasters
Smooth sea wave pebbles also make an excellent base for a cookware rack or rugs. Here you will need a lot of small pebbles without sharp corners, a plastic or metal surface (an old tray, plywood, etc.) and a glue gun.
Instructions on how to make a stone craft in the form of a flat rug look like this:
- Find a base that is the right size and shape.
- Lay out the stones in a single sheet or in an unusual pattern.
- Glue each element.
- Fill the voids with small pebbles.
- Place satin ribbon around the edges.
Even the most boring and inconspicuous cobblestone can be turned into an elegant piece of furniture in a couple of minutes, and if you take the selection of suitable pebbles seriously, you will get the perfect composition for your home or garden.
Let the above ideas be the first step towards creating interesting, unusual and practical things from seemingly unsuitable material for creativity.
Photos of crafts made from stones
If you decide to decorate your country or summer cottage in an unusual way, it makes sense for you to pay attention to crafts made from stones with your own hands. Structures and products made from ordinary natural stone or sea pebbles make it possible to achieve a unique natural landscape effect even in the city center. In addition, interiors and objects decorated with them bring eco-motives inside the premises, which makes it possible to add original notes even to a standard office environment.
Crafts from stones that you can make with your own hands have several varieties. For example, they can be used to make figures for the garden, which are used in landscape design and simply decorate a garden or summer cottage. By the way, a local landscape can be formed around them; for example, an alpine hill can be built near a gnome figurine.
Another option for using them in design and decoration is painting on stone and making crafts from it using glue. Such products can be used both in a suburban area and indoors. This can be either a single painted boulder or a whole product, for example, a stand for tableware made from glued pebbles.
Crafts made from shells go well with an aquarium
By the way, handmade crafts made from shells and stones go well with an aquarium, forming a special water zone in the room. As a result, you can create a study in a marine style, where the main element will be an aquarium with sea inhabitants, and accessories made of stone will only complement it. If necessary, the aquarium can be replaced with any part of the attributes of sailors, for example, a steering wheel or an imitation of a boarding weapon.
Another type of such crafts are various accessories and gifts. They are usually made of small stones, from which figurines of people and animals are made. A tube can be cut from soft rocks. In addition, specially selected specimens can serve as decoration or a talisman for a person. To do this, you need not only to process them beautifully, but also to select them in accordance with your zodiac sign or year of birth.
Stones can be used to make various jewelry, such as bracelets
You can improve your qualifications by attending master classes in relevant areas. They are usually free, or you will only be charged for the cost of the material used during the class. Over time, having learned how to make a variety of crafts using various techniques, you yourself will be able to give one or another master class.
Types of stone crafts
DIY stone crafts come in several types depending on the technique used. Thus, the following techniques for working with stone are currently used:
- stone painting;
- mosaic;
- stone cutting.
Stone painting is done with paints that adhere well to its surface. These can be either acrylic paints or enamels. Using this method, you can decorate both fairly large objects and handmade stone crafts for children. Painted stones are an excellent accessory and can also serve as a gift or as an element of landscape design. For example, with their help you can create a fairy-tale corner on your site, where you can place painted stone figures representing certain fairy-tale characters.
The mosaic technique consists of selecting stones by color and gluing them onto a solid base. As a result, you can create various colored panels, graphic elements and real paintings in this way. In this case, you can take shells, pebbles, and multi-colored crushed stone as materials. In addition to creating the mosaic itself, this method can be used to decorate flower pots and other elements of room decoration.
If we consider handmade crafts made from small stones, cutting them is an excellent way to work with them. Using stone carving, you can make small figures, for example, netsuke. In addition, if you have soft rock at your disposal, it is quite suitable for creating a real sculpture. Such figures can fit perfectly into the interior of your suburban area, and if you wish, they can easily find a place inside your home.
There are other ways and techniques for working with this material, for example, it can be used as an auxiliary material for beading or creating costume jewelry. As for the simplest crafts, for example, bracelets or necklaces, you can easily make them without any special knowledge of stone processing techniques. To do this, it is enough to use a drill to drill the soft rock stones you need and string them on a silicone thread or wire.
Stone crafts with children
Children can also make crafts from stones with their own hands. This will not only be great fun for them, but will also give them the opportunity to do things that are useful to them on their own. For example, you can paint stones with your children. In this case, it is best for you to use acrylic paints and gouache.
Attention! Usually sea or river pebbles are painted, since they have a smooth surface.
You can paint one stone or several. If you paint 1 pebble, it can make a great gift, or it can be used as a single decorative element when decorating a child's room.
In the same case, when you paint a group of stones, you can create some kind of composition from them. For example, cacti are very popular among children, which can be made from round and oblong pebbles, painted green and attached to match needles using plasticine. Such cacti will look impressive in a pot decorated with colored crushed stone or granite chips.
With children you can make various applications using stones
In addition, with children you can make various mosaics from small stones. To do this, it is enough to have multi-colored small pebbles and PVC glue available. Next, you simply select the pebbles by color and glue them onto the same colored paper, plywood or wood. As a result, you can create very unusual paintings from pebbles, and if you add other materials to it, you will get an original panel created in the genre of naive art.
Stone crafts for the garden
If you want to make stone crafts with your own hands for the garden, then you will have a whole sea of possibilities for this. Thus, one of the common uses of stone in the garden is the production of a wide variety of decorative figures. They serve a purely aesthetic function, but some figures can serve, for example, as a flower bed. To do this, you can lay out a turtle from suitable boulders, the shell of which will serve you as a flower bed.
The second common way to make various homemade projects in the garden is crafts made from sea stones, made with your own hands in the form of garden paths or places to relax. There is no particular difficulty in making them, since all you need to do is level a suitable area and lay the stone you have selected on the ground.
A flowerbed in the shape of a castle using stones will look great in the garden
Attention! With the help of stones you can decorate artificial reservoirs located in your summer cottage and garden.
In this case, you can make crafts from sea stones with your own hands if you study the corresponding photos posted on sites dedicated to landscape design. Usually they consider options for designing the side, as well as the bottom of such reservoirs. They can be decorated with various shapes, as well as simply beautiful pebbles and boulders.
The fourth option for using this building material in the garden is landscape design. Thus, not only flower beds and flowerpots are made from stones, but also alpine slides, as well as multi-level terraces. They can also be used to divide an area into several work areas, highlighting, for example, a recreation area. By the way, the grill can also be made of stone by arranging the boulders in a special way.
Unusual ways to use stone in decoration
There are also unusual ways to decorate rooms with stone. For example, large pieces of rock or pebbles can be used as decoration for furniture and door handles; you just need to stick them on the handle using PVC glue or secure them through a drilled hole with a self-tapping screw. You can decorate walls or mirrors in the same way.
If you decide to decorate a shoe stand in this way, it will be even easier to do. You simply take a shallow container made of plastic or metal the size of your intended shoe stand, place soil in it, and stones, such as crushed stone, on top. Such a stand will not only look unusual, but will also allow your shoes to dry quickly after rain, since all the moisture from them will drain through the ground.
You can make approximately the same craft to decorate the entrance to your home. To do this, you will need to take a regular silicone mat and stick even pebbles on it. The result is a stone mat that will also allow unnecessary water to drain away from the porch and will trap dirt so it won't end up inside your home.
Attention! Designers claim that stones are so versatile that they can be used to completely transform almost any room.
Crafts made from stones and sea pebbles
One of the most popular trends in modern creativity is making crafts with your own hands. Often, to create various crafts, they use the most ordinary objects and available, natural materials. The most ordinary stones make beautiful and unusual crafts that will decorate the interior of any room or become an excellent element of landscape design. Both ordinary stones and sea pebbles are suitable for handmade work. The material can be of different sizes and colors.
Stone crafts
Stone is used to decorate fountains, arrange terraces, design garden paths, and even build furniture. But most often, stone is used to make crafts that become decorations for a garden or personal plot. Stones of different sizes, which are decorated in the shape of ladybugs, will perfectly decorate the garden. If you show your imagination, the stones can turn into cute caterpillars, snails, frogs and other cute inhabitants of the garden.
Garden figurines made of stones
A swan can also decorate a garden; its head and neck are made of bent reinforcement, and its body is made of a rounded stone. Other animals can be made in a similar way, where the armature can be used to make legs. Large and medium-sized stones can be decorated in the form of a fairy-tale house and a small gnome can be placed next to the house. Lying stones are an excellent material for creating a dog, cat or tiger.
If you show a little imagination, fabulous mushrooms will grow on your plot or in the garden or daisies will bloom. Pots or buckets with stones painted in the shape of berries will look impressive.
Painting on stones - craft ideas
In order for the painting on the stones to last as long as possible, a varnish coating should be applied over the design.
Crafts made from medium-sized stones, decorated using the “napkin technique” - decoupage technique, look very interesting and unusual. In order to make such a craft you will need:
A medium-sized stone with a smooth surface;
Bright napkins;
PVA glue;
Acrylic paints;
White “water emulsion”;
Glossy clear varnish.
First of all, it is necessary to apply a layer of “water emulsion” to the surface of the stone. It is better to choose three-layer napkins. The first layer of napkins must be removed, then cut out the design, and remove another layer. Only the top, colorful layer is suitable for crafts. The design from the napkin is fixed on the surface of the stone using PVA glue. As the glue dries, make sure that no wrinkles form on the napkin. Next, the background of the craft is created with acrylic paints, drawing is done, and then painting. After applying the design, the stone must be varnished and left to dry for 2 days. Then another layer of varnish is applied.
Crafts from sea pebbles
Sea pebbles are a very convenient material for creating various crafts with your own hands. Due to their baked shape and relatively small size, sea pebbles are used to make various decorations and buttons.
Sea pebble jewelry
You can make holes in the pebbles yourself, using a drill and various drill bits, or seek help from a jewelry workshop.
Perhaps the simplest craft made from sea pebbles is a refrigerator magnet. To do this, you just need to glue a small magnet to one side of the stone and paint the other side with acrylic paints.
Decorating flower pots using sea pebbles
A flower pot covered with sea pebbles will look good in any interior. In a similar way, you can decorate various boxes, vases or any other containers.
Sea pebble paintings
In order to make unusual paintings from sea pebbles, you need to select the base of the painting and paint it in the required color. You can use a piece of wood or plywood as a base. Then you should draw a sketch of the future design onto the paper and determine what color stones you will need. Then the stones must be painted in the required colors and then glue the stones to the base using a glue gun. If you wish, you can experiment a little and add other materials to the picture.
Crafts with children: let's paint pebbles
Pebble painting will be a great activity not only for adults, but also for children. To paint stones, you must use acrylic paints or gouache. Of course, acrylic paints will be more durable, and if the design is varnished on top, the craft will delight the eye for decades. Using pebble painting, the interior of the room can be decorated with cute cacti. For such a craft, you will need large pebbles, which should be painted in the form of cacti. Fill a flower pot with fine crumbs and place the resulting “cacti” in it. Thus, one “cactus” or a whole “green family” can be placed in one pot.
