Love collecting rocks and love Halloween? You will love our Halloween rock painting ideas; with ideas suitable for you and your kids to make there are many projects to add to your “to-do-art” list.
Painting rocks is a fun hobby for grown-ups and for kids – some paint them for themselves, some to hide for others to find, both being equally fun. What makes this art activity great is the fact that it can suit all ages, you can make cute ghosts with toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners or you can make more complex Halloween rock painting artworks with older kids.
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Getting Started – What Supplies Do You Need?
You will need nature’s little canvases – stones. The smoother the better, but you can work with any kind really. In fact the more asymetric the shape the more creative you can get. If you don’t have easy access to stones in nature you can also buy them in craft or garden stores.
You can use a variety of paints, acrylic paints are the golden standard as they are waterproof but you can use any other medium and with the help of gloss or matte varnis seal them.
We really recommend giving acrylic markers/pens a try to as they will allow you to make detailed designs easily. Kids will love chalk markers too.
Halloween Rock Painting Ideas
Without further ado, here are some of our best Halloween rock painting ideas for you or your kids to do.
Spiderwebs
Almost as zen as mandalas but perfect for Halloween. Paint the stones with black paint. Let it dry. Draw a spiderweb on the stones, either with gel pens (you will need to seal it afterward), with acrylic pen markers, or with a fine brush.
Jack-o-Lanterns and Pumpkins
One of the easiest and most fun Halloween-painted rock ideas is without a doubt painted jack-o-lantern stone and painted pumpkin rocks. Paint the stones with orange color and then get artsy with a black marker. Easy Peasy!
Ghosts
One of the easiest painted rock ideas for Halloween, especially if kids are the ones doing the project is rock ghosts. All you need to do is paint the stones with white paint and then get creative with black acrylic pens (or a black Sharpie marker).
Silly Monsters
There are no limitations when it comes to making monster painted rocks. Any shape of the stone is perfect! Choose a color or two for the body, paint the body, and let it dry. Now get creative with silly faces, and different colors to add body parts… The sky is the limit (well the size of your stone is but you know what we mean).
Witch
While you can transform any rock into a witch, triangle-shaped ones are the best!
Spiders
Incy wincy spiders are perfect for Halloween, and they pair up nicely with the rock-painted cobwebs. Paint a stone in one color (black is really cool, but you might need more than one layer of other paint over it for it to really pop, depending on the brand). Once the base paint dries, paint the spider on top. Chalk markers really pop here, but you will need to apply a layer or two of varnish to secure the chalk paint and not have it wash off.
Creepy Eyes
You won’t be able to stop making these once you start. They are so, so cool and perfect to make for Halloween. Find round or oval stones and paint them with white paint. Draw an iris in any color you want and red veins going out from the iris. It’s easy peasy. Adding gloss varnish is a must for this one (not really) as it gives the stones that glassy-eye look. Spooky and fun.
Owls
Owls are super fun to make for Halloween and all you need to paint in order to make one is a pair of big round eyes and a beak. Other than that any cool pattern will still make your owl look like an owl.
Candy Corn
Halloween is one of the sweetest holidays of the year, yes it’s all about spooky and scary, but it’s also about trick or treating and delicious candy. Candy corn is one of the most recognizable treats tied to this holiday so it only makes sense to make Halloween painted rocks look like candy corn. When you paint them, start with the brightest colors first and work towards the darker ones, waiting for the paint to dry before moving to the next one.
Haunted House
Make little masterpieces by painting a larger rock yellow, letting it dry, and then painting a haunted mansion on top of it. We recommend sketching out the house with a pencil before moving on to painting it. Using acrylic pens for this project works out best.
Skeleton
Find a dark stone or paint a stone with a darker paint as a base. Draw a skeleton with a white acrylic pen. Chalk pens are great for this too, but you will need to seal your rock painting with varnish.
Bats
You can paint the bats directly on stone or you can make stone bats with wings with just a little addition of construction paper.
Yarn Monsters
You can go beyond just using paints when it comes to decorating your Halloween rocks. If you have any scrap yarn you can make the coolest yarn-wrapped rock monsters.
Cat Silhouettes
Silhouette motives are perfect for Halloween and cat ones are one of the most popular ones.
Mummies
Another cool idea is to make little mummy rocks. Start by painting the rocks with white paint. Let the paint dry. Paint a pair of eyes (yellow looks really cool). Draw black lines with a Sharpie marker or with an acrylic pen.
Cute and colorful ghosts
Halloween-painted rocks don’t need to be all gloomy and spooky, they can be cute and colorful as well. Paint the rocks in bright colors and let the paint dry. Paint a white blob and add eyes and mouth with black acrylic pen. To make it look even more dynamic, paint a few white swirls next to the ghosts (a white acrylic pen is great for this).
Skulls
Either paint the stones white and work from there or just use the natural colors and enhance the rocks with a pair of eyes, a nose, and a set of teeth. Add a few extra white dots for the fun of it.
Halloween trees
This is one of our favorite Halloween painted rock ideas. Find a large round stone and paint one side orange, yellow, or red (perfect colors for Halloween). Let it dry. Paint the other side black, also painting around the red, yellow, or orange oval/circle shape you painted. Next, take the black acrylic pen and start drawing the trees. Make some of the branches rounded. Also, paint white or yellow stars.
Sunset bats
Bats are also great when it comes to sunsets and silhouette art.
Scarecrow
Great for fall or for Halloween.
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