Stepping Stone Mix Recipe

It costs about 2 for a 60 pound bag and makes about six stepping stones.

Stepping stone mix recipe. Elevate the stone on pencils or dowels to maximize air circulation around all sides of the stone and allow 28 days for the stone to fully cure indoors at room temperature. Choose a mold that is flat on both the top and bottom and more than an inch thick for best results. We had so much fun making our stones that i thought i would share with you all. Aluminum pie pans bucket lids or even clean sturdy pizza boxes may be used as molds for your quikrete stepping stones.

If you are using quikrete mix five parts concrete to one part water. You can purchase stepping stone kits at most craft stores but if you re making more than one or two stepping stones it s more economical to skip the kits and mix your own concrete. My crafty friend cheryl and i have been at it again. Make small batches of mix rather than larger amounts so that the mix will not begin to dry out and result in a gritty surface.

You can even reuse the mold to make more than one. This stepping stone can be made in a snap using ready mix concrete and a plastic flat used by nurseries to hold ground covers. We had a brainstorm. Making a stepping stone from a plastic nursery flat.

Quikrete is a popular mix for stepping stones. My sweet friend pam invited me to a stepping stone class at myrddin winery a local winery in ohio and this is the results. Otherwise the stepping stone may crack easily under weight. I made some stepping stone moulds from your silicone and corn starch recipe over some old tree stumps and they turned out perfect.

A 1 gallon bucket used as the parts measuring container for the 1 2 3 mix works well and yields enough for at least a couple of average sized stepping stones. It was a great night out with my girlfriends. We went on a wednesday evening for several hours and then back. None of us had made a stepping stone before so it was a new experience for all.

For concrete stepping stones you have a few different options depending on the look you re going for and the amount of work you want to put into mixing your cement.