Beautify your yard or garden with decorative stepping stones inspired by the sea.
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Shop beautiful coastal garden stepping stones or if you are feeling creative make your own coastal or beach theme garden stepping stones. If you want to make your own stepping stone(s) the cool part is that you don't need a Fancy Mold to do so. You can use a non-stick cake pan or plastic planter trays as a mold, for example. Latter was used to create the above beach theme garden stepping stones. For the tutorial, go to Real Housemoms. Fast-setting concrete mix is commonly used to make DIY garden stepping stones.
Place your beach garden stepping stones anywhere in your yard or, of course, lay them out as a walkway.
Sea glass pieces were used to make these stepping stones. Original source is no longer available.
Another beautiful example, using mostly seaglass, comes from Lovely Greens. For this stepping stone extra wire is used to give it more stability.
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12 x 12 inch beach theme stepping made in USA with hand cut stained glass, sealed for outdoor use and sturdy to step on.
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Mix up a batch of mortar (which is cement mixed with an aggregate), pour it into a mold (here a foil pan was used), then decorate with shells, sea glass or beach pebbles, and let dry. Easy.
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DIY Stepping Stones by Buzzmills were made using aluminum brownie pans from the grocery store. Little kids made these shell mosaic garden stepping stones!
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Or compose a beach scene with pieces of glass or ceramic from a broken plate. Via Stepping Stone Pictures at About.com.
Concrete Flip Flop Stepping Stones (Wayfair) line the gravel walkway of a RI coastal home, featured at Home Bunch.
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Place your beach garden stepping stones anywhere in your yard or, of course, lay them out as a walkway.
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Wide selection of 14 inch coastal and beach theme stepping stones made in USA. All created from solid concrete with stained glass inlays.
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12 inch stepping stones made in Rhode Island from concrete. They also have great sand dollar stepping stones.
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12 stepping stones made in Rhode Island from concrete.
Great tutorial for making your own custom garden stepping stones, using any template you like (such as a sea turtle for example). By DIY Easy Crafts on Youtube.
Another way to create a garden stepping stone such as a sea turtle is with a mosaic style composition. Source for the tutorial is no longer available. You can make this sea turtle stepping stone composition by pouring the concrete directly into the ground, using cardboard cutouts as templates for excavating the area. Or you might find stone tiles to purchase and arrange them in any shape you want.
To make garden stepping stones is a great project to do as a family. If you have small kids, have them add impressions of their hands or feet.
