Alphabet Rocks Heat Embossed
If you didnt already know, we love the alphabet at our house and have an entire wall dedicated to it. Since my 2 year old son loves letters, I wanted to make him some alphabet rocks to practice his ABCs. In the process I realized there is a lot you can do with rocks and a little imagination. While most people tend to paint their rocks with acrylic paint (like the number rocks I made), I decided to try something a little bit different by using stamps and heat embossing.
On the front of each rock I did uppercase letters and on the back I did lowercase letters.
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SUPPLIES:
- -Rocks (I gathered mine from the beach, but you can find them at the dollar store or craft store)
- -Stamps - I bought my UPPERCASE stamps at Paper Source and the lowercase ones at Michaels. Here are similar stamps that come with both upper and lowercase letter.
- -Clear stamp pad
- -Embossing powder - Bright colors stand out the best like this embossing powder I bought from Paper Source.
- -Embossing Heat Tool
- -Modge Podge Matte - (Optional)
STEP 1: Stamp rocks.
STEP 2: Cover rocks with embossing powder.
STEP 3: Remove extra embossing powder.
STEP 4: Use the heat embossing tool over the rocks (its really fun to see the powder turn solid). NOTE: It gets VERY hot, so put a baking sheet or tin and a towel underneath. I learned my lesson the hard way when I burned a small hole into my desk.
STEP 5: Once the rocks have cooled, you can add lowercase letters to the back. If you do this, slip a piece of parchment paper under the finished side so that your uppercase letters dont smear.
STEP 6: Optional - Add matte modge podge to just the embossed part of the rock to protect them.
Here are more learning activities that you can use your alphabet rocks for:
Color sorting:
Spelling:
If you are looking for more rocks activities and ideas check out these other Thrive 360 Living posts:
Painted Very Hungry Caterpillar Rocks
Train Rocks
Counting Rocks
Magic Dragon Rocks
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