How to Make Handmade Stepping Stones

Stepping stones can add both beauty and function to your lawn and garden area. They can protect plants from being stepped on by providing a place to walk in between rows and plantings. Stepping stones can also add a beautiful accent with which to decorate your outdoor space and add some color to your lawn or garden area. Handmade stepping stones are a very inexpensive alternative to pre-formed stepping stones and paving stones. They can be completely customized to match any existing decor or to create a theme all of their own.

Things You'll Need

• 1 small bag of quick-setting concrete mix
• Water
• Wheelbarrow
• Standard garden shovel
• Disposable foil pie pans
• Decorative glass gems
• Small concrete trowel

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Pour the contents of the quick setting concrete mix into the wheelbarrow. Using a standard garden shovel, mix the concrete mix with water according to the directions on the back of the concrete mix bag.

   • 2

     Place the concrete mixture into the desired number of disposable foil pie pans. Fill to a level flush with the top edges of the pans and smooth the surface with the a small concrete trowel.

   • 3

     Decorate the stepping stones by placing decorative glass stones into the concrete while it is still wet. Push the gems into the concrete until the tops are flush with the surface of the handmade concrete stepping stones.

   • 4

     Place the drying stepping stones into an area where they will be protected from the weather until the concrete has dried.

   • 5

     Turn the pie pan upside down to remove the stepping stone.

   • 6

     Place your new handmade stepping stones into the desired locations.