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Nine-year-old Lainey Johns of La Salle begin a new amusement this summer, and it’s one she affairs to abide into the winter.
“Whenever I’m done with appointment I’ll acrylic rocks and again I’ll ask my mom if she can go drive me about and we can go adumbrate them,” she said.
What does she acrylic on the rocks?
“I do pictures, words and a lot of stuff,” Johns said. “Sometimes I go on Pinterest and acquisition ideas, and sometimes I aloof appear up with ideas.”
Sometimes they go out to hide; added times they go aloof to see if they can acquisition rocks others accept painted. And they do.
Lainey’s mom said her babe has a accumulating of about 50 “found rocks” she has placed alfresco their home in a bedrock garden.
“It’s like Christmas aback she finds one,” Erinn Johns said. “She doesn’t affliction what’s on them. She aloof loves to acquisition them. It’s like a abundance hunt.”
And she doesn’t alike accumulate all the rocks she finds. Sometimes she re-hides them achieve else.
Lainey said corrective rocks were easier to acquisition in the summer, but there are still some out there. Her admired corrective bedrock so far is one with a bubble on it.
“It’s aloof a fun amusement for the kids and for adults to do,” said Erinn, although she herself doesn’t paint. “I anticipate it brightens everyone’s day.”
Grown-ups acrylic rocks too
Painting rocks isn’t aloof about accepting article fun to do. And it isn’t aloof for kids. The Affection Rocks Activity was founded in February 2015, according to its Facebook page, and has added than 60,000 followers. That movement began aback a woman combing the beach, analytic for “signs,” noticed others seemed to be attractive for something, too. So she started abrogation letters on rocks.
Amber Leibov of Peru best up on that affair and started the Facebook folio IV Affection Rocks, breadth bodies can column pictures of rocks they accept found, or rocks they plan to hide. She writes adorning words, messages, or Bible verses on hers.
“There’s so abundant applesauce in the world, and violence,” she said. “I’d rather advance adulation and not hate.”
There are several added Facebook groups in the breadth with the aforementioned basal premise: Acrylic a rock, column a account (or don’t), add a adumbration if you want, again adumbrate it. Acquisition a bedrock and column a account if you’d like to let the artisan apperceive it’s been found.
Margaret Franklin of Oglesby moderates the Facebook accumulation Illinois Valley Rocks, which her granddaughter, Rachael Lock of Tonica, started this summer and handed off to her a few months ago.
“I absolutely get into things like this,” said Franklin, who is retired.
She and her husband, Dennis, begin a corrective bedrock during a vacation in Michigan about the aforementioned time their granddaughter begin one in Tennessee. Lock brought her begin bedrock home, looked into the trend, and formed the accumulation to advice advance it.
Franklin said it was her husband’s acknowledgment to one of her corrective rocks that aggressive her to continue.
“He said if addition was absolutely bottomward and depressed in their activity and they happened to aces up a bedrock that says, ‘I care,’ that could beggarly a lot to a person. Especially in the apple as it is,” she said.
The Franklins biking a lot, and Margaret now leaves letters of affection forth the way.
“I’ve got a acrylic box I put in the camper with me. I booty a little Tupperware and ample it with all my supplies,” she said. “On a backing day, you can paint.”
Barbara Jarka founded the Princeton (Illinois) Rocks accumulation on Facebook afterwards her accessory aggregate photos from a accumulation in Washington state.
“I again apparent it was like this civic association — cities all over the country accept their Rocks groups. I anticipation it would be fun to alpha one actuality as affectionate of a association activity and a way to get kids involved, too,” she said. “The rocks ambit from asinine little faces to adorning words or quotes to actual intricate works of art.”
The assorted Facebook groups leave their name on the aback of the bedrock so the finder can apprentice the origin. One of Lainey’s corrective rocks fabricated it all the way to California, her mom said. Sometimes a begin bedrock makes its way aback into a photograph on the group’s page; sometimes not.
“It doesn’t amount if it’s begin or acknowledged,” Franklin said. “Somebody ability charge to see article kind.”
Kelly Reynolds of Oglesby, a affiliate of IV Affection Rocks, shares that sentiment.
“When you go aback to adumbrate and your rock’s not there, you apperceive you fabricated somebody’s day,” she said. “It’s like geocaching, alone better, because you’re not assured to acquisition anything.”
The Affection Rocks Activity began on a beach, but Illinois Valley association leave their letters in bounded parks, alfresco breadth businesses and in little libraries — anyplace bodies ability be acceptable to acquisition them.
Franklin best up on a trend from one of the out-of-state rock-painting groups she belongs to: abrogation a children’s book with a rock. She has already larboard a few abreast breadth schools for accouchement to find.
And aback the acclimate turns?
“I plan on ambuscade them, aloof in added accessible places like schools, food and the mall,” Reynolds said. “But bodies absolutely still airing in the winter. And we’ve had such balmy winters, who knows?”
Lainey affairs to alpha application glow-in-the-dark paints, her mom said, so bodies can still acquisition the rocks aback the sun sets earlier.
Lainey uses acrylic markers with acrylic paint. A bright aerosol acrylic works to allowance the acrylic so it doesn’t ablution off, Reynolds and Leibov said.
You can additionally use sharpies, but Reynolds advises accepting the average tip rather than a accomplished point.
“If it catches on the bedrock again it ability splatter,” she said.
It ability be account accepting the added big-ticket cast to abstain colors alteration or crumbling aback the sealer is added. And be accurate not to get too abutting with the aerosol aback you allowance them, or the colors ability bleed.
Franklin covers chastening with Mod Podge afore spraying it with a bifold covering of acrylic sealer. She recommends Posca acrylic pens.
“They are wonderful. They dry fast. One covering usually does everything.”
