STONE CRITTERS

Rinse stones and dry them. Look at their colors, sizes, and shapes for ideas. Use to make paperweights, doorstops, yard ornaments or garden sculpture, refrigerator magnets, knick-knacks, etc. Tiny decorated pebbles can be glued to magnets, pin backs for jewelry, or barrettes. To fasten stones together to create animal ears, arms and legs, tails, etc., dab silicone sealer or tacky glue on stones and hold til set. Use paints or permanent markers to decorate or draw on eyes and such. Glue broom straws or dry grass for whiskers. Old leather scraps make good tongues, ears. Large rocks can be painted like ladybugs or turtles for the garden. Look not only for the entire body of an animal in the stone's natural lines, but also for just the heads of animals such as are easily identifiable by the head alone.