Rocks, paints, glue, googly eyes, and some pipe cleaner make for some serious garden-y fun! Let kids make their own pebble pets to decorate the family garden.
If you want to bump up the crafting intensity, try this fun {and more labor-intensive} tutorial to make colorful wax wings for pebble butterflies.
First: Grab a box of old {or new} crayons. Peel the wrappers off, and grate them into colorful piles on a sheet of wax paper. This part is fun for kids in and of itself.
Second:dig into those colorful piles and drop shavings into fun designs on a clean sheet of wax paper.
Third: cover with a second sheet of wax paper.
Fourth:take a warm iron to it. {Set the iron to medium-low heat. Mine was set on really high, and it burned some of the colors, and to be honest... that was kind of devastating ;). }
Fifth: Let your masterpiece cool, and then cut the wax sheet into wing shapes.
Finally: take a slender rock and glue the wings to it.
* I tried this with hot glue first, and it totally didn't work because the hot glue melts the wax. {um, yeah.} So use a cold glue like Elmer's {it takes forever to dry, but it works}.
*Hot glue gems and antennae to the rock body, and voila! You have a beeeautiful pebble butterfly.
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