Dad and Me Father's Day Paperweight Rocks
Fun and easy homemade paperweight gift for dad
Materials
- Rocks I found River Rocks at my local hardward store
- Paint for skin You'll want to pick out colors to resemble your family. I mixed a little orange and white to make a peach color
- Yarn or cross-stitch floss for the hair Colors should match the kid's hair and dad's hair
- Glue I used a tacky glue that dries quickly
- Marker this is for adding featurs like a mouth or rosy cheeks
Instructions
- Set newspaper or something else to protect your work surface
- Pick out a rock to paint as dad, and one for each child.
- Mix paint colors to match your family's skin tone and paint your rocks with that color
- Let those dry. You can use a hair dryer to speed up drying time
- Cut the yarn to make the hair. and glue that to the rocksFor the dads hair, I made a part in the hair by adding looped yarn going one way, and then looped yarn going another way
- Add googly eyes
- Use a marker to make a smile