You can make simple but incredibly effective crafts for your garden with your own hands from ordinary stones. in this case, the stones can be painted with paints, felt-tip pens, combined with metal, or simply assembled into an interesting composition.
DIY garden crafts. Painting stones master class.
In the simplest case, you can simply select the stones you like and paint them with acrylic paint, applying a simple design. Such crafts for the garden are already cute, and you can easily make them with your children.
We will tell you a more advanced version of beautiful painting on stone. In fact, this is also not difficult, it just requires knowledge of basic techniques. 
Do-it-yourself garden crafts made from stones. Painting with felt-tip pens.
If you are afraid to work with paints, or the idea of buying acrylic paints in a wide range of colors is not acceptable to you, you can paint the stones with felt-tip pens, where white is a regular masking marker.
For example, such DIY crafts in the form of owls will decorate any garden. A simple diagram for you on how to draw an owl.
You can come up with drawings and funny inscriptions yourself.
or choose any drawing and transfer it using carbon paper onto a stone, and then paint it with a felt-tip pen like regular coloring books.
You can combine paints with a felt-tip pen: paints for the background, a felt-tip pen for finer details.
To ensure that these handmade stone crafts last a long time, cover them with a layer of varnish on top. 
DIY garden crafts. We make a “pond” of painted fish.
You can make spectacular crafts for your garden with your own hands from stones painted with fish. 
It is enough to put such pebbles in any vessel with water, and you already have an impromptu small pond in the garden.
For those who doubt their artistic talents, we offer a master class on how to draw a fish.
Or you can use ready-made drawings.
When coated with varnish, these stones can create a cute, unexpected effect in any corner of the garden - near a bench, near a gazebo or next to a path.
Interesting DIY garden crafts made from stones.
Upon careful examination, each of us will be able to see in an ordinary stone that mysterious smile that this charming garden cat smiles at us.
If you combine stone with metal, you will get even more interesting figurines for the garden, such as these original buffalos.
You can make DIY garden crafts from sea pebbles, adding an interesting shape using soft wire.
Beautiful little frogs are simply assembled from several stones, which are placed together on sealant or cement.
As children, we all made simple crafts from various natural materials, and why don’t we transfer our skills to the garden? After all, you can create incredibly beautiful crafts for your dacha with your own hands literally from what is lying under our feet.
After all, any creative process has not only practical, but also emotional results. The ability to see beauty in small things and in everyday materials will make each of us richer.
Perhaps our selection of photographs will help you find your idea for a summer house, and, based on what materials you have at hand now, under the pressure of inspiration, you will create something no less amazing.
In addition, garden crafts made from stones are more durable and unpretentious than crafts made from any other material.
Not only the author himself, but also your friends and acquaintances who come to your dacha will enjoy the funny figures for the dacha.
And imagination in creativity really has no boundaries.
The most difficult idea is not always the most interesting. Just put the stones that you brought from the sea in the shape of a foot, and you already have a real art object in your dacha.
Creating balanced compositions from stones is possible only for the most patient. Often, such stone crafts are kept in fragile balance thanks to the notches and hollows in each of the stones. But, if you want to prolong this short-lived beauty, you can seal the stones together with sealant.
Do-it-yourself garden crafts made from stones are suitable for people who are outwardly stern and pedantic, but with a talented and attentive heart, open to every shade of beauty in nature.
DIY stone crafts can be an interesting toy, educational material, or a way to decorate a room or design a playground in the courtyard.
Crafts made from stones are always relevant for kindergarten: with their help you can make the space of the playroom more interesting and unusual, create picturesque corners in the kindergarten, and enliven flower beds and flower plantings in the hall.
The process of making such crafts requires a creative approach and the ability to take an unconventional look at ordinary objects. Each image is dictated by the shape of the stone - its contours, size, as well as what other stones are available.
All that remains for the creator after he imagines the future image is to bring it into reality with the help of bright colors.
Children will really love a mosaic made of colored pebbles on a plaster or clay base. It is very interesting to post it, and the result will be bright and elegant.
Rounded and elongated flat stones become owls if the little creator so desires.
You can make an “autumn tree” applique from painted small pebbles
Perhaps the most popular master class made from stones is flowers. The shape of the pebbles is very convenient for making petals, and a round pebble will make an excellent centerpiece.
Stones can be used to make incredibly adorable round chickens. We place them in a cozy nest made of straw or thread.
Stones of different shapes are turned into houses for fairy-tale characters.
You can make a small magical town out of pebble houses.
Playing with such a stone house is a real pleasure.
And flat oval stones - into a fairy-tale bus or car.
And here is an example of how you can make a real highway out of stones with a road, cars, road signs and a gas station.
Crafts made from stones with animals, birds and fish
If the stones are large enough, you can use them to create decorative designs. You can make a wonderful gift from stones, depicting a cute bird, fish, snail or any other character on them with your own hands.
Beautiful fish are made from a combination of painted stones and foarmin. Instead of foam, you can use fabric or thick cardboard.
Painted stones make very cute forest hedgehogs. We cover the stones with a light beige base. After it dries, paint the body and nose with brown paint.
Using black paint we draw needles on the body, nose and eyes. Stone hedgehog - ready!
Young children will be happy to turn pebbles into multi-colored building material - to do this, just cover their surface with bright multi-colored stripes or white strokes.
And by connecting several pebbles with each other, you can get interesting three-dimensional figures. For example, a fairly large round stone will turn into a cute cute hare if you attach flat ears and paws to it.
And an oval-shaped stone can become a real turtle that will decorate any flowerbed or playground.
Pebbles, pointed on one side, easily turn into ducks.
And flat, rounded stones can become cheerful frogs that will happily settle on the cardboard leaves of water lilies.
By arranging several flat stones with each other, you can create a real panel that will decorate any wall of the room or photo album.
And the smallest stones are just waiting to turn into tiny animals. For each of them you can make a separate house-bed from a matchbox.
You can make flat animals with plasticine eyes or completely three-dimensional stone characters - for example, a mouse.
You can make a charming ladybug out of stone
or funny mushrooms - fly agarics.
Crafts made from stones for home and interior
The stones make a very interesting decoration for the interior - a cactus.
And here is an example of a very original basket with apples made from stones.
You can decorate a flower pot with stones, making it a unique decoration for your garden or home.
From stones and wire you can make an interesting decoration for your home - a pendant.
Pictures and panels made of stones
Perhaps the most popular stone panel is the “Sea Bottom”. Round pebbles make lovely fish.
Panel of stones “sea bottom”
From painted stones you can make a cute picture for the nursery “Bears in Love”.
And here is a wonderful picture made of stones “My Beloved Family”.
Picture made of stones “My beloved family”
You can make a very touching picture from stones and branches.
The boards themselves can serve as the basis for panels. This is how interesting a bird made of stone can look on such a base.
What can you make from pebbles with your own hands? Use these ideas and you will see that stone is an ideal material for decoration.
It is not necessary to bring sea stones from vacation - today pebbles can be bought in stores for construction, decoration and handicrafts. Go through those that are nearby, most likely, the problem will not arise. Of course, you can also use natural seafood to make crafts from sea stones, but keep in mind that sea pebbles tend to become covered with a white coating, so they cannot be chosen for some types of work. It is better to find river pebbles or give preference to artificially created pebbles.
And now, it’s time to move from theory to practice - how can you use pebbles in creativity and what can you make from pebbles with your own hands?
If you want to create something useful, then start with rugs for the bathroom or hallway. In addition to their spectacular appearance, such mats have a healthy massage effect, affecting the points of the foot.
The easiest way to make a stone massager is to use any rubber mat as a basis. You need to glue the pebbles with transparent waterproof glue, selecting the elements so that the unattractive rubber is not visible.
You can make a hot stand in the same way.
Another useful application is . For indoor plants, choose the smallest stones, and for large flowerpots, look for large stones. It is convenient to glue small pebbles onto a transparent “Moment” or with a glue gun, and large pebbles can be attached to concrete mortar or tile adhesive. For smooth products it is important to use a reinforcing mesh.
By the way, pebbles make wonderful cacti if you paint them beautifully and choose the right shape. Don't be afraid to make mistakes - stones will endure anything!
If you know how to paint or are just learning to paint, try painting stones using the suggested photos as a basis. Even a child can make the simplest decorations – eyes – a reality.
With the help of small stones it is easy to build stylish candlesticks and... You don't even need glue for this job.
With a little imagination, ore stones can be used to make magnificent photo frames, boxes, jewelry and much more. The only downside is that now you will be bringing back even more stones from vacation. But pebbles for crafts can also be purchased at hardware stores.
Don’t stop at one thing, they are waiting for you, try yourself in different types of creativity.
Crafts made from stones and sea pebbles
One of the most popular trends in modern creativity is making crafts with your own hands. Often, to create various crafts, they use the most ordinary objects and available, natural materials. The most ordinary stones make beautiful and unusual crafts that will decorate the interior of any room or become an excellent element of landscape design. Both ordinary stones and sea pebbles are suitable for handmade work. The material can be of different sizes and colors.
Stone crafts
Stone is used to decorate fountains, arrange terraces, design garden paths, and even construct furniture. But most often, stone is used to make crafts that become decorations for a garden or personal plot. Stones of different sizes, which are decorated in the shape of ladybugs, will perfectly decorate the garden. If you show your imagination, the stones can turn into cute caterpillars, snails, frogs and other cute inhabitants of the garden.
Garden figurines made of stones
A swan can also decorate a garden; its head and neck are made of bent reinforcement, and its body is made of a rounded stone. Other animals can be made in a similar way, where the armature can be used to make legs. Large and medium-sized stones can be decorated in the form of a fairy-tale house and a small gnome can be placed next to the house. Lying stones are an excellent material for creating a dog, cat or tiger.
If you show a little imagination, fabulous mushrooms will grow on your plot or in the garden or daisies will bloom. Pots or buckets with stones painted in the shape of berries will look impressive.
Painting on stones - craft ideas
In order for the painting on the stones to last as long as possible, a varnish coating should be applied over the design.
Crafts made from medium-sized stones, decorated using the “napkin technique” - decoupage technique, look very interesting and unusual. In order to make such a craft you will need:
A medium-sized stone with a smooth surface;
Bright napkins;
PVA glue;
Acrylic paints;
White “water emulsion”;
Glossy clear varnish.
First of all, it is necessary to apply a layer of “water emulsion” to the surface of the stone. It is better to choose three-layer napkins. The first layer of napkins must be removed, then cut out the design, and remove another layer. Only the top, colorful layer is suitable for crafts. The design from the napkin is fixed on the surface of the stone using PVA glue. As the glue dries, make sure that no wrinkles form on the napkin. Next, the background of the craft is created with acrylic paints, drawing is done, and then painting. After applying the design, the stone must be varnished and left to dry for 2 days. Then another layer of varnish is applied.
Crafts from sea pebbles
Sea pebbles are a very convenient material for creating various crafts with your own hands. Due to their baked shape and relatively small size, sea pebbles are used to make various decorations and buttons.
Sea pebble jewelry
You can make holes in the pebbles yourself, using a drill and various drill bits, or seek help from a jewelry workshop.
Perhaps the simplest craft made from sea pebbles is a refrigerator magnet. To do this, you just need to glue a small magnet to one side of the stone and paint the other side with acrylic paints.
Decorating flower pots using sea pebbles
A flower pot covered with sea pebbles will look good in any interior. In a similar way, you can decorate various boxes, vases or any other containers.
Sea pebble paintings
In order to make unusual paintings from sea pebbles, you need to select the base of the painting and paint it in the required color. You can use a piece of wood or plywood as a base. Then you should draw a sketch of the future design onto the paper and determine what color stones you will need. Then the stones must be painted in the required colors and then glue the stones to the base using a glue gun. If you wish, you can experiment a little and add other materials to the picture.
Crafts with children: let's paint pebbles
Pebble painting will be a great activity not only for adults, but also for children. To paint stones, you must use acrylic paints or gouache. Of course, acrylic paints will be more durable, and if the design is varnished on top, the craft will delight the eye for decades. Using pebble painting, the interior of the room can be decorated with cute cacti. For such a craft, you will need large pebbles, which should be painted in the form of cacti. Fill a flower pot with fine crumbs and place the resulting “cacti” in it. Thus, one “cactus” or a whole “green family” can be placed in one pot.
