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How to Make Strawberry Rocks

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These fun, painted strawberry rocks are a great art activity for children that can be used as a decoration around the house or in the garden to help deter birds from eating your lovely, fresh strawberries.

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How to Make Strawberry Rocks

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Strawberry Rocks Craft Activity

This fun project could be used as a craft activity for children who are learning about strawberries. They can create these lovely strawberry rocks, while learning about the life cycle of strawberries and completing the activities in this Strawberry Printable Pack. This Strawberry DNA Experiment is another fun way to learn with strawberries. 

Once they have painted and sealed their rocks, children can use them in many games, such as:

  • Counting Games
  • Hopscotch
  • Tic Tac Toe
  • Hide and Seek

Strawberry Rocks in the Garden

Gardeners can use these rocks in their garden. It is said that rocks that are painted like strawberries that are placed in the strawberry patch, will help deter birds from eating your delicious, homegrown strawberries.

Just place these ‘fake’ strawberries around the plants, before your plants start fruiting, and birds will start pecking at these hard rocks. The hardness of the rocks will cause the birds to think that you aren’t the best gardener and this is not a place where they can get a feed, so they should move on.

By the time your lovely, fresh strawberries grow, the birds should be far away, pecking on something other than your strawberries.

Supplies for Strawberry Rocks

It only takes around 15 minutes to paint these rocks, though this does not include the drying time.

The supplies you will need are:

  • River rocks – Flat, rocks that are shaped like strawberries – wider on the top and narrower on the bottom
  • Craft Paint in four colours – red, green, yellow, and black
  • Brushes – I used a 1 inch paintbrush, a ¼ inch flat angled artist brush, and a foam dabber
  • A Clear Glaze – I used this Krylon Acrylic Spray Paint 

How to Make Strawberry Rocks supplies needed

Making Strawberry Rocks

When making these painted strawberry rocks, the first thing to do is  to paint the rocks red. Use the 1 inch paint brush to paint the rocks with 3 coats of paint. Allowing the paint to dry between each coat. To help speed up the drying process, try using a hair dryer to dry the paint. 

How to Make Strawberry Rocks - painting with red paint

Next, use the angled artist brush to paint green leaves on the wider, top part of the rock.  

How to Make Strawberry Rocks - painting on the green leaves

After this is dry, use the foam dabber to paint the yellow “seeds” on the rock. To do this, dab the foam dabber in the yellow paint and then on the rock.

How to Make Strawberry Rocks - Painting on the yellow seeds

When the yellow paint is dry, make a tiny dab of black paint just above the yellow seed.

How to Make Strawberry Rocks - painting on the black

When this paint is dry, spray the rocks with glaze.

How to Make Strawberry Rocks - spraying with clear glaze

Allow the rocks to dry completely before using. This make take a couple of hours. 

How to Make Strawberry Rocks - four strawberry rocks all done

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How to Make Strawberry Rocks - three rocks all done up close

How to Make Strawberry Rocks 3 rocks painted

How to Make Strawberry Rocks

These fun, painted strawberry rocks are a great art activity for children that can be used as a decoration around the house or in the garden to help deter birds from eating your lovely, fresh strawberries.
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Prep Time 15 mins
Total Time 15 mins

Supplies
  

  • River rocks Flat, rocks that are shaped like strawberries - wider on the top and narrower on the bottom
  • Craft Paint in four colours Red, green, yellow, and black
  • Brushes I used a 1 inch paintbrush, a ¼ inch flat angled artist brush, and a foam dabber
  • Clear Glaze I used this Krylon Acrylic Spray Paint 

Instructions
 

  • When making these painted strawberry rocks, the first thing to do is  to paint the rocks red. Use the 1 inch paint brush to paint the rocks with 3 coats of paint. Allowing the paint to dry between each coat. To help speed up the drying process, try using a hair dryer to dry the paint. 
    How to Make Strawberry Rocks - painting with red paint
  • Next, use the angled artist brush to paint green leaves on the wider, top part of the rock.
    How to Make Strawberry Rocks - painting on the green leaves
  • After this is dry, use the foam dabber to paint the yellow “seeds” on the rock. To do this, dab the foam dabber in the yellow paint and then on the rock.
    How to Make Strawberry Rocks - Painting on the yellow seeds
  • When the yellow paint is dry, make a tiny dab of black paint just above the yellow seed.
    How to Make Strawberry Rocks - painting on the black
  • When this paint is dry, spray the rocks with glaze.
    How to Make Strawberry Rocks - spraying with clear glaze
  • Allow the rocks to dry completely before using. This make take a couple of hours.
    How to Make Strawberry Rocks - four strawberry rocks all done
Keyword Craft, Garden, Rock Cycle, Strawberry
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