I’m a huge fan of painted rocks and Halloween is always such a fun time of year for getting creative. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create your own painted rocks and offer ideas for what to do with them.
I’m sure you will love these Halloween rock painting ideas!
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Why You'll Love This Craft
- Spooky & Simple: Create adorable or eerie Halloween-themed rocks with just a few paints and brushes – no fancy skills required!
- Great for Group Crafting: This is a fun craft for kids to do together, allowing them to share ideas and work on their spooky masterpieces.
- Durable & Long-Lasting: Unlike paper crafts, these painted rocks can be kept year after year as part of your Halloween decorations!
Things to Do With Halloween Painted Rocks
Besides having fun being creative, you can do a few different things with these cute Halloween painted rocks.
- Create Halloween story stones. Use the stones with your kids as storytelling prompts. You could even flip them over and write words on the back for younger kids who need a bit more direction.
- Hide the painted rocks and have the kids search for them.
- Use the stones in other crafts or decor around the house.
- Give them as “pet rock” gifts or in a Halloween party goody bag.
As someone who enjoys painting rocks on a regular basis, I often like to look for examples of painted rocks. I hope these Halloween painted rock ideas inspire you.
Mix these up with our painted Monster Rocks and Mummy Rocks!
What You Need for Halloween Rock Painting
There are lots of different supplies that you can use for halloween rock painting. My favourite method is to use Posca paint pens. You may want to try different stone painting techniques such as painting with acrylic paint and a thin paintbrush.
If you plan to make a whole set of painted rocks, you might want to purchase a small canvas bag to store your painted rocks.
Posca paint pens are a fantastic option for painting rocks with children. They can help little ones develop fine motor skills whilst having fun and trying out a new art form. Here are some tips for using these pens for rock painting:
- I use the fine-point Posca marker pens for drawing the outline and adding detail to my painted rocks.
- Larger posca marker pens are great for filling in the large gaps.
- You can pull out the nib once it has worn down and turn it around to increase the life of your Posca pen.
- I have purchased Posca paint pens for rock painting from the USA, the UK and Japan via Amazon and they have all been good quality.
🖌️ How Do You Paint Halloween Rocks?
- Step 1: First you will need to rinse your stones in warm water until all of the powder has been removed. Set the rocks on a towel and allow to dry completely. Use a pencil to sketch the design onto the stone.
- Step 2: Use paint pens to colour the stones. Use a black paint pen to outline the painted stone. Allow the paint to dry completely.
- Step 3: If you’d like, create a small canvas bag to hold your story stones. Use an alphabet stencil to paint words onto the canvas bag. Allow to dry completely before storing your stones. If you’d like to protect your stones for many uses, use a spray sealer or Modge Podge.
Also check out our Kokeshi Japanese Painted Rocks and our Crab Rock Painting Craft For Kids!
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Materials
- Stones/Rocks
- Paint Pens
- Pencil
- Canvas Bag
- Alphabet Stencil
Instructions
- First you will need to rinse your stones in warm water until all of the powder has been removed. Set the rocks on a towel and allow to dry completely.
- Use a pencil to sketch the design onto the stone.
- Use paint pens to colour the stones.
- Use a black paint pen to outline the painted stone.
- Allow the paint to dry completely.
- You are now ready to use your stones to narrate a story.
- You can even flip them over and write words on the back of the stones.
- If you’d like, create a small canvas bag to store your story stones.
- Use an alphabet stencil to paint words onto the canvas bag. Allow to dry completely before storing your stones.
- If you’d like to protect your stones for many uses, use a spray sealer or Modge Podge.
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Love this idea so simple at cute too. I like that u can do didn't themed story stones too not just for Halloween.
Such a visually stunning collection. I really like these. C x
Yes they look fab don't they!
These are awesome. You have a talent at drawing and I love the idea of story stones, not something I've come across before.
Such a wonderful idea to create Halloween inspired story stones. Little man would love this!
thanks Lilinha
thankyou
These look like great fun to make. We have a random stone finding thing locally where you decorate stones and hide them for others to find and take a photo - may have to make some of our own
They look amazing! You're craft skills are super cute especially the little witch, I wish I could draw as I'm terrible x
Now these are such a lovely idea and it looks like the pens have worked so well on the stones as well.
Yes, I want to order some more on Amazon.
I love these such a fab idea I would buy them in a flash but I wouldn’t be able to make them I’m not artistic enough
Oh we all have talents in different areas. I need to practice this myself as I need to improve at my crafts.
Those are so cute, and I bet there were loads of fun to paint! You did a great job with the artwork - very talented!
They are lovely. I like them.
Oh wow these are amazing!! I'm terrible at stuff like this, I'm way too clumsy! Gorgeous craft!
I'm glad you like them Laura.
These look amazing and have come out so well. I love the idea of having words on the back to make a story x
Yes it can make learning fun adding words to the stones.
Awwwh story stones are awesome and you made these ones look so awesome!! I shoukd really do more of this stuff!!
they are fun to make.
What a great idea! Miht make some for Christmas too!
oh thanks. Yes I would like to make some NATIVITY ones.
Oh wow, I LOVE this idea. And your drawing skills are kind of amazing. These are too cute.
-Lauren
thanks
These are SO cute. I have been part of the Kindness rocks rock painting thing for a while, and I was JUST thinking about painting a bunch of Halloween rocks to hand out on Halloween. So fun.
I'm so glad you like them Angie. It's something I really enjoy, rock painting and always love to share fun ideas!