Stepping Stones

This project was to make a decorative stepping stone out of cement. The lesson started with a brief history about the different types of stepping stones and there uses. We then started to draw a rough sketch of how we would decorate the stones. While we were decorating the teachers would call us over and fill our plastic mold with wet cement. We had to let the cement sit a little bit and would shake the mold to get all the air bubbles in the cement out. After all the air bubbles came out we could then decorate the stone. The picture is of my fiancé and I and it was taken at a party at my fraternity at UND. I put our greek letters at the top of the stone and wrote the name of the party around the sides. It is kind of hard to read but it says Two Yard Hop. After done decorating we set the stones to the side so that they could dry. Once dry we simply took the stones out of the mold and took a paper towel and cleaned the stone up to make it look nice. As an extension activity we would do a class stepping stone pathway and each stone would represent a value that is dear to each student.