You can paint your Rain Barrel with spray paint for plastic like Krylon Fusion or RustOleum Spray Paint for Plastic. RustOleum is available at Menards and Home Depot. Krylon is available at ACE Hardware, True-Value and Wal-Mart. We recommend the Krylon Fusion spray paint as the spray tip is specially shaped to spray the paint in a rectangular fashion like a powered paint sprayer, whereas the RustOleum sprays in a circle / dot.

Below is a slideshow of Rain Barrels that our customers have painted themselves:

If this slideshow doesn't play for you, click here to go to our Picasa Web Gallery!

Here are some great links for ideas on painting designs on your Rain Barrel yourself:

KentuckyPride.com Rain Barrel Painting Contest - Over 50 pictures of awesome professionally painted Rain Barrels.

Polk County Florida Kids Rain Barrel Paining Contest - About 15 pictures of award winning painted Rain Barrels.

"Students Create Rain Barrel Art" KOLR-TV Springfield, MO - Click the gold "Watch" button to see a TV News clip of kids painting Rain Barrels.

Kids Painting Rain Barrels - Pictures on a father's blog of his kids painting Rain Barrels at school.

"How to Paint Polyethylene Tanks" - Poly Processing Company (PDF) - Info about how to use acrylic house paint to paint your Rain Barrel instead of spray paint.

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Children's Rain Barrel Coloring Page!

Click here to download our Children's Rain Barrel Coloring page in Adobe PDF!

Let your children's imagination run wild as they color in the page with a rain barrel design of their choosing. There is even space on the right side of the page for a garden to grow and don't forget to encourage them to put some flowers in the window box! Great for adults too!

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Artistically Painted Prairie Rain Harvester Rain Barrels given away
September 20, 2008 by the office of Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn:

Austin Grammer, Prairie Rain Harvester CEO, donated these three Rain Barrels to the Office of Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn. They where hand painted by three local artists, then put on display at the Lt. Governors tent at the 2008 Illinois State Fair in Springfield. At the fair and on the Lt. Governor's website (www.CleanWaterIllinois.org) citizens had the opportunity to enter to win one of the three painted Rain Barrels. The painted Rain Barrels were given away on September 20, 2008, during "It's Our River Day" festivities.

Click here to see more photos of the three painted Rain Barrels and meet the artists!