Painting rocks is something my kids and I occasionally enjoy. We get a lot of our ideas from the 'Painting on Rocks' books, however, this is not necessary.
Some ideas are:
Make address rocks for neighbors, friends or family by painting the rock a color that coordinates with the house that you are making it for. Paint on the address number and a few little flowers or other decorations.
Have the kids paint them into 'creatures' or insects to decorate your garden.
Sometimes rocks come in unusual shapes such as hearts - accentuate that shape with paint. My daughter once used fabric paint and outlined a heart-shaped rock with one color, then kept making new heart shapes inside each new heart in a different color. Some outlines she did as polka dots, some as dashed lines and some as full lines. It was really cute, but best of all, she had fun doing it.
Paint them into large flowers - sunflowers and daisies are easy flowers to paint. You can set these into a planter for a 'rock garden'.
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A co-worker gave me the idea to paint small smooth rocks (we have a lot of such rocks here on the shores of Lake Erie) with pretty flowers, rainbows, animals, handprints, or even names. This is a fun and easy craft to do with kids. You can then give the painted rocks as gifts to your gardener friends and relatives, to place in their gardens, or put them in your own garden to admire.
You could also glue googly eyes, some fun fur, a bead (for the nose)and some red string to create rock, people. Try putting ears on it and a tail and you will get a rock pet you do not need to feed.
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