We love fun ideas for painted rocks and these DIY nativity story stones are so easy to make that even the kids can do them as a simple nativity craft for kids or of course you can make them yourself if you want to encourage the kids to retell the nativity story. They’d be great for Sunday school or preschool or just to keep at home for retelling the nativity story with your kids.
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What Pens Should You Use for Making Story Stones?
My kids love decorating story stones and painted rocks and to be honest I do too. If you don’t want to use this activity as story stones it would be nice to make them as painted rocks to hide around your local area.
For painting rocks I prefer to use chalk pens as both my kids and me are more used to using pens than painting so it means our pictures are a little more accurate. The brands that I buy are Chalkola* or Posca* both of which I have a good record with for successfully wiping off my kids hands when they’ve finished!
If you decide to use this as a painted rock craft, or you’d just like your story stones to last a little longer then I’d also recommend buying some spray varnish*.
Nativity Story Stones
We’ve shared quite a few painted stones and story stones ideas and the tutorial for these nativity painted rocks are ones that I’ve shared over on Rainy Day Mum. You can see the full story stones tutorial here.
I was really nervous when I first made them as my drawing skills are…. well I didn’t even get to take my GCSE in art lets put it that way! The good thing about these Christmas nativity story stones though is that I’ve made them super simple so they really are achievable – anyone can draw a sheep or a manger, especially if you have a little practice on paper first!
Want to make these story stones? Make sure that you bookmark this page or pin an image so that you don’t forget to make them!
Easy Christmas Crafts for Kids
We’ve made lots of story stones but these Christmas story stones might be my favourites? Plus I’ve got a couple of tips there if your drawing skills are less than awesome so that you can still make great drawings.
These paper plate snowman twirlers are a great way for kids to practice their scissor skills
Finally this round up of Christmas crafts for toddlers has been really popular, why not grab some inspiration there too!
I love the idea of using stones or pebbles to paint nativity scenes. What a wonderful and creative way to celebrate Christmas with the kids! x
Ah these are so lovely, my son would really enjoy trying to do these together x
Oh wow! This rocks are so cute! I am sure my kids will love this idea. Thanks for sharing!
What a fab idea, my niece and nephew love getting crafty, I’ll have to do this with them when they’re next down x
I really love these. They are so cute and creative. I’m sure they’re lots of fun to make and will still be used for many years each Christmas.
People are going mad for painted rocks at the moment and this is such a lovely idea
I love the idea. And I love art.. So soon I will be sending my own art rocks on a journey. Hoping they will bring smiles to all that find one
Ah these are so lovely, I would love to do some and add it to my backyard decor.