Alphabet Rocks - Heat Embossed

If you didn't 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 ABC's. 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 (it's 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 don't 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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