Enhance Your Garden With These Easy DIY Stepping Stones
If you’re looking for a simple way to add something fun and interesting to your yard or garden, these stepping stones are a perfect project for you. I wanted to make my stepping stones fun and summery, so I painted them like fruit. But you can, of course, paint yours with any colors or designs you like. Are you ready to get started on this DIY stepping stone tutorial? Keep reading!
Tools and materials:
- 2 buckets
- Oil
- Cement
- Water
- Exterior paints (multiple colors)
Coat with oil
Before mixing and adding cement, I coated the bottom and sides of my bucket with oil, so the stone will be able to slip out easily once it’s dried.
Mix
In a separate bucket, I mixed my cement according to the instructions on the package.
Transfer
Then I transferred the cement to the oiled bucket.
Smooth out and let dry
To smooth out the cement, I tapped the bottom of the bucket on a flat surface, turning it and shaking it a bit, until the layer of cement inside was smooth and even. Once it was smooth, I let it dry for a full twenty-four hours.
Remove
After twenty-four hours, I was able to remove the stone quickly and easily from the oiled bucket.
Paint
Then I painted my stone with paint that is meant to be used outdoors. The paints I’m using here are color samples from Behr. As I mentioned previously, I’m painting my stepping stones to look like fruits. This one will be a watermelon.
Fill in the gaps
I went over the stone a few times to make sure all the crevices were filled in completely with paint, and no gray was showing through.
Decorate your garden
Once the paint dried, I put all my fruity stepping stones outside in my garden for my children to enjoy!
Aren’t these stepping stones adorable? Let me know what you think. If you use this tutorial to make DIY stepping stones of your own, I’d love to see them in use in your garden!
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This could be a fun painting project for the little one in the pic and her siblings or friends, a nice way to create keepable, showable art. The fruits are super cute too, enjoy!
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I spray the inside of my concrete forms with crisco cooking spray - great minds! 😉
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What is diameter of your stone- what size bucket?? I have made stones before, this seems like a neat idea…. Ty