On your next walk, bring a collecting bag or bucket to hold any potential rock buddies you find. Back home, you can give your new friends a quick bath, and then your imagination is the only limit on uncovering your rocks’ hidden identities.

Paint and brushes, googly eyes, fabric scrap clothes, yarn hair, a sharpie and some glue will help you fashion your new friends.

You may want to find a place outside, on a branch, around the base of a tree, or you may decide you have an indoor rock. I like to name my rock friend Roxie. Roxie may live on a shelf or you may decide to a make a special home out of a shoe box.