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June 17, 2013

Rock Kids Activities and Crafts

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Rocks rock!  They are a cheap, plentiful, natural material that can be used for so many fun kids activities.  Here are 17 ways to learn, create, and play with rocks from The PLAY Group…rock on!

18 Rock Themed Activities for Kids_ Learn, play, and create with rocks. Rocks rock!

 Rocks can be used for just about any activity and can be an addicting  material once you start using them! There are tons of learning, art, and play activities that you can so with them and I’ve rounded up 18 awesome ones from the The PLAY Group for you today!

Preschool Busy Bag Activity--Number Match and Counting

Learn with Rocks

30 Playful Ways to Teach Kids About Rocks

Color Matching with Painted Garden Stones

Ladybug Math Game Busy Bag

Rock Demo Science Fun

Books About Rocks for Young Kids

Magic Fairy Painted Rock and Storage Tower

Play with Rocks

Magic Fairy Painted Rocks and Storage Tower

Make Your Own Rock Band

Rock Sensory Bin

Pet Rocks

Make Nature Prints with Rocks

Create with Rocks

Nature Prints

Chalkboard Rocks

Rock Ladybug Craft

Rock Letter Craft

Painted Rocks

Painting with Rocks

Ladybug Rocks

Painted Rock Ghost

Now grab some rocks and get playing and learning!  (Right after you pin this post to come back to of course!) 

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About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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  1. Veens says

    June 17, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    What a lovely resource. Love all the ideas.

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      June 17, 2013 at 11:23 pm

      Thanks so much!!! I found many new ones on there to try too!

      Reply

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