One of the cutest pets your kids can have is pet rocks. You can make these rocks for your kids or teach them how to make them. In this article, we have put together 20 tutorials that will teach you how to make DIY pet rocks.
For this DIY project, you won’t need to spend a lot of money. The materials used for making pet rocks are very cheap, a visit to the dollar store would be just fine.
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1. How To Make A Pet Rock
This amazing pet rock is made from simple materials like rock, paint, a cup, a paintbrush, and needle nose pliers. The first thing to do is to paint the rock, you can use any color you like. Then let the rock dry, after that draw all the face features on it and you have your new friend smiling at you.
2. DIY Pet Origami Rock
This amazing origami pet rock is made from a sheet of paper, rock, glue, and googly eyes. Get a round rock then fold the sheet of paper at the required angle to form an origami. Attach the paper to the rock and fit the googly eyes to it with glue.
3. How To Make Pet Rocks
Pet rock can be very interesting to make because you can give it any look you like. Start by painting a piece of rock, all it to dry then, draw any kind of face you want on it. It is very simple and fun-filled.
4. DIY Pet Rock: Insects
To make these insect pet rocks, you will need rooks, acrylic paints, a palette, a cup, water, and paintbrushes. Use different colors for each insect rock. For all of the insects, start by painting the rock with white paint then add the chosen color for that pet on it. Use black paint for the mouth and the eyes. To have neat and good-looking pet rocks, make sure you are using a separate brush for each painting.
5. How To Make A Cute Pet Rock
These cute little pet rocks were made from rocks, permanent markers, tacky glue, googly eyes, felt, pom pom, and paints. Since there are several different pet rock designs here, you can start with the small and simple ones. The simplest of all is the rock with only googly eyes in it. Then, move to the ones with pom pom, add different colors of pom-pom on a rock and your pet is ready.
Moving on to the funny ones. To make these, you have to paint them in your desired color, attach the googly eyes, felt, and feathers(for hair) to them. Use the marker to draw nos and might on them.
6. How To Make Colorful Pet Rocks
These pet rocks do not require so many accessories, all you need to make them are paints, rocks, googly eyes, and paintbrushes. Paint the rocks with your desired color of paint, leave the paint to dry then attach the googly eyes to it with tacky glue. After this, you can decorate your pet anyhow you like with the remaining paints.
7. DIY Fluffy Pet Rocks
This pet rock is soft as the name implies "fluffy pet rock". It is made from round rock, googly eyes, tacky craft glue, felt scrap, and yarn trimmings. Smidge the rock with the tacky craft glue and stick the yarm trimmings on ⅔ of the rock. Cut a nose shape from the felt scrap then glue the googly eyes and the nose to the rock.
8. DIY Rainbow Painted Pet Rocks
Rainbow! The bright color and the amazing googly eyes make this pet rock look beautiful. Paint the rock with your desired bright color, all the rock to dry, and then attach the googly eyes to it using hot glue. Use a black sharpie marker to draw a funny smiley on it and you have your pet.
9. DIY Adorable Pet Rocks
The materials needed for this shining pet rock are rocks, glossy paint, hot glue, feather, felt scrap/ red paper, gems, and googly eyes. Get a big flat rock and smaller ones, paint the big flat rock in gold and paint the small ones in different colors. All them to dry then place the small rocks on the flat one. Attach the googly eyes and feathers on each of the rocks. Attach gems that serve as the nose.
10. Easy Rock Pets DIY
These pet rocks are easy to make. Gather some stones and paint them in the color you like. After painting, leave them to dry then look for the cutest position to attach the googly eyes. Cut a heart shape from a scrap of felt and glue it to one side of the rock. The pet rocks are ready.
11. DIY Pet Rock Monsters
The monster pet rocks look scary and funny at the same time. They are easy to make and each monster requires a particular shape of rock to give it the actual look of a particular monster.
Gather different sizes and shapes of stones, you can buy the smooth rocks to get a more smooth shape for the monsters. Paint them in different colors and attach googly eyes to some. For those that don't require googly eyes, use the paintbrush to draw or paint the eyes.
12. How To Make A Garden For Pet Rock
Your pet rocks deserve a little beautiful garden. In making these rocks harden you need a treasure chest, small rocks and pebbles, a bench, sand, and a clay pot.Fill the pot with sand, small rocks, and pebbles. Place the bench or plant on it then arrange your pet rocks with their smiling face on top of it.
13. DIY Pet Rock
This is made from rock, posca paint marker, white wall paint, and pencil. Get a smooth rock, draw a silly or funny face on the rock using a pencil. Highlight the drawing with the pencil then paint the inside with white paint to make it bright. Paint the rest of the rock with the color you like, you can also add trimmings or feathers if you want your pet to have hair.
14. DIY Painted Minion Rocks
This is made from stones, white, blue, and yellow paint, and a black marker. Gather the stones and draw the overall on them. Start by painting the blue overall then add the yellow. Leave the rock to dry then use the black marker to outline the eyes, mouth, and glasses shape. Fill the eyes with white paint and you have your minion buddy ready.
15. DIY Ladybug Painted Rocks
This is made from patio paint, mod podge, paintbrush, toothpick, and rocks. This bug-like pet rock is mostly designed for the garden. Gather stones of different sizes and paint the tip of the stone with black paint. Then, paint the other part of the rock in any color of your choice, after painting it use the toothpick to add a drop of black paint over the color, leave the paint to dry then attach the googly eyes.
16. How To Make A Pet Rock
Look for a smooth rock and draw a smiling face on top of it with a marker and you have your pet rock. Yeah, it's that simple. All you need a rock and a marker.
17. DIY Monster Pet Rocks
Gather rocks of different sizes and paint them with any color of paint you like. Glue a googly eye to some, in some, two eyes and some three eyes. Use the black market to draw a mouth on them and use the white market to add teeth to it.
18. DIY Pet Rock
In making this pet rock all you need is a paintbrush, white and black paint, and rocks. Use the black paint to draw the face; give the rock two eyes, a nose, and mouth. Then, use white paint to make the eyeball. Just like that, you have your pet rocks.
19. DIY Pet Rock Lion
This is made from smooth round rock, yarn trimmings, black sharpie, yellow foam, and googly eyes. Start painting the rock with yellow paint, add a thin layer of tacky glue to the edges of the painted rock for the attachment of the yarn trimmings. Use a sharpie to draw a nose and smiley to the rock then glue the googly eyes to it. Just like that, you have your pet rock.
20. DIY Painted Pet Rock
The materials needed for this pet rock include, stones, acrylic paint, wiggly eyes, mod podge, paintbrush, felt, etc. Gather different sizes of stones and paint them in your desired color. Then, attach the wiggly eyes, felt, and foam to it with hot glue. If you want your pet to have hair, attach the feather with hot glue.
Conclusion
Pet rocks are small gifts that you can give to your children even to your friends. It is very simple and interesting to make. You can't get bored making different pet rocks over and over. Feel free to make as many as you please with different designs. You can also get creative with the making process by adding things that are not in the original guide.
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