Garden Stepping Stones

This lesson was very fun and challenging, even though it was suppose to be for a Kindergarten classroom. We were told to bring a container such as a pie pan or some type of container so we could put ready-mix cement in it. This lesson was mainly for us to get familiar with ready-mix cement and also to use our imaginations when coming up with a design for our stepping stone. Before getting our beads and other materials to design our project we were told we had to have a reason for designing our projects the way we were going to. I chose to make this one for my daughter because she is two and would really enjoy all the different colors and media that were used. I chose to put her name and some other colorful things on the stepping stone in order to make it Livy's very own. After we got our cement poured in our container we had to get our beads or whatever we chose to use and push it a little ways down into the cement. By pushing them down a little ways would keep the beads/materials from falling off after the cement dried. This was a great activity because we got to do a lot of independent working.

An extension for this activity could be students each have to press a picture into the cement and then tell a story as to why they picked that particular picture and what meaning the stone has to each student.