This is a sweet art activity I did with my little one, Kye, this morning. I took some medium sized potatoes and cut them in half. Took a biscuit cutter and pressed it into the potato, left it there and cut away the sides, so that only the shape was left and then removed the cutter as you can see with the butterfly. The square, rectangle and diamond shape, I just cut with a sharp knife myself.
I used recycled glass jar lids and filled them up with thick paint. This works well and really sticks to the potato shape. Take your potato and submerge the shape flat into the lid so that the shape is covered in paint.
Then let the excess paint drip off the potato and place your paint filled potato flat onto your paper and press down. Lift it straight up and there you have your pretty designs...
What you will need:
*Good quality thick paint
*Potatoes
*Knife
*Biscuit cutters of various shapes
*Good quality paper
*Jar lids or anything else that works well that is flat for paint.
After you have finished using your potatoes, wash them off, dry and place in the fridge in a sealed container, you will be able to use them for a few days for more potato printing:)
Enjoy!
Looks like loads of fun. I will have to try this with my kids!
ReplyDeleteThis is so much fun. It is amazing, also, how much detailed you can get with carving the potato if you choose.
ReplyDeleteMy friend does amazing prints with potatoes.
Thanks for sharing and reminding me of this.
Warm wishes,
Tonya
I love this idea! I just read another blog about potato stamping...I see this happening in our future very soon!
ReplyDeleteThanks Suzy
We also did this with dense foam, which was fun. If fact, when my kids were teenagers, they used sponges, cut them into fish and sea plant shapes and stamped the walls of our newly painted kids' bathroom. It was great.
ReplyDeleteI love this idea I have wanted to do it for awhile but I always thought it would be much more difficult.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a cute, fun project! Thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten about the joy of potato printing:: thanks for the tutorial, because we've never used cutters (what a great idea!). Thanks so much. Lovely space you have here:)
ReplyDeletePerfect timing, I have been wanting to do this for a while now, but haven't yet. I'm about to do some potassium activities with my girls which involve pumpkin, potatoes, and bananas. Forgot about potato printing. Thanks for the reminder and the great how to!
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