Art with beach stones

Your restless can role play with this. Make a masterpiece with beach stones.
This is another summer craft you can do all year, is always fun and they love it.
Buy an art board, or make yourself one with a piece of wood, and invite your restless to make art with stones, the result always work.

What we need:

• beach stones, several formats and colors,
• art board,
• white glue
• charcoal,
• beach sand, optional
• acrylic paint, optional,
• varnish, optional,
• brush, optional.

How to:

1. Wash all the stones, first with water and after with alcohol;
2. Separate the stones by color, size and format;
3. With a charcoal, draw, with light strokes, the design you wish to replicate with the stones, for some restless the "we will see as we go" works best;
4. Geometric designs always work in this project, triangles, circles, straight lines...
5. Apply white glue on the art board;
6. One by one, glue the stones to the board as you with, to form the design you want. Use colors, formats and sizes to do the pattern;
7. After you finish spread the sand on it, the sand will glue to the "empty spaces";
8. Let it dry for 24h;
9. You can paint stones outlines with acrylic paint if you wish, let it dry for 4;
10. Before varnish remove the sand.

Et Voilá!
Hang your master piece on the wall, and wait for next summer.

Enjoy!