DIY Stepping Stones with Leaf Imprints
These DIY stepping stones are a quick project that involve just minutes of hands on creating time! You'll love seeing these pretty concrete stepping stones every time you are out in your garden.
Cost $10
Equipment
- Wheelbarrow or bucket for mixing concrete
Supplies
- Square or round plastic containers
- Vegetable oil
- 1 Foam brush
- Dry repair concrete
- Rubber gloves
- Trowel
- Leaves Choose leaves with interesting shapes, strong veins, and defined edges.
- Small rocks
Instructions
- Use the foam brush to spread the vegetable oil around the inside of the container and on the vein side of the leaf.
- Mix repair concrete (concrete without large pieces of gravel) as per the instructions on the bag using the wheelbarrow, trowel, and rubber gloves.
- Pour the concrete into the molds and press the leaves, vein-side down, onto the concrete.
- Weigh the leaves down with rocks or stones and allow to set for 24 hours.
- Cure as per the instructions on the concrete package and then unmold your stepping stones and place around the garden.