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Friday, June 18, 2010

Potato Stamps

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This is a great activity for anytime of year. Whenever you play with paint this can be fun. We happened to find ourselves in a situation where we needed a star stamp. We didn't have one on hand so we made our own out of a potato. Lucky for us we had two old wrinkled ones in the house that worked great!

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What you need:

Potato
Knife
Paint
Paper or T-Shirt or whatever!
Paint brush


How: Cut potato in half. With your knife carfully cut down into the potato face an outline of the design of choice. We did a star. Then cut into the sides of the potato until you cut to your design line cutting small parts away until you are left with your raised design.

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We used the paintbrush to apply paint to the end. You may want to dry the wet serface of the potato off a bit before you start stamping. We did shirts like this one year for the 4th of July when I was growing up.

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Love the differnce between my older two kids pictures.

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Showing their artwork.

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Little brother wants in on the photo action.

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The proud artist.

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