Rock Insects

These make wonderful paper weights and could be great dad gifts!  We made these as a part of our insect unit.

Mexican Pebble Rocks make the best bugs! I found some of these wonderful stones at a landscape supplier. They are a nice size (palm size.)

I had the children begin by drawing their design in sharpie.  This is important for the painting step.

I had the children paint their rocks with acrylic paints.

We let the acrylic dry.  You can see the sharpie underneath the paint!

The details were added with paint pens.  So cute!