Potato Print Garland

There is something nearly potato stamps that makes me recollect of my childhood. I'k not even sure I ever did potato stamping, but it'due south more the look that the stamping provokes: imperfect, smudgy, and just authentically kid-like.

I was hoping my fine art form students would be into it. And to my eternal relief…they were! How sweet are these pages that they created?

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Supplies needed:

~ Phone book pages (or newspaper cut down to eight″ x x″)

~ Liquid watercolor (or palette watercolors if you don't have liquid)

~ Small jars or cups for the liquid watercolor (I watered mine down a chip, nearly two parts colour to i role water)

~ Small-scale potatoes and a paring knife

~ Tempera paint

~ Modest cups or palette for the tempera paints (I love and use these palettes when it's just 1 or two kids)

~ Paint brushes

~ Baker'south twine (or any yarn)

~ Washi tape (or any tape)

Process:

Step i: Paint the pages with the liquid watercolor. My kids painted 3 pages each.

Step 2: Let them dry. This shouldn't take more than an hr, only we used a blow dryer to speed things forth!

Pace 3: When the pages are dry out, bring out the pre-cut potato stamps. I used a really cool technique that I found here to make a perfect heart!

Step 4: Teach the kids to utilize their paintbrush to paint on a thin layer of paint. (I observe that dipping the potato into the dish makes for a very gloppy print.) I made 6 stamps for 4 kids. Two of them we used for black, the other two for the ruby-red and pink. They were actually good virtually keeping the blackness paint on the black postage and non mixing it with the lighter colors. Usually I'm not equally conscientious merely then once again, I usually don't put out a lot of blackness! It was a dainty lesson on keeping colors clean.

Stride 5: Let them explore the printing procedure and make their ain patterns. Some kids were immediately linear, while others were random with their stamping.

Stride 6: Once dry, we used a small piece of washi tape to tape the twine to the delicate pages.

Voila! Such a unique footling Valentine'southward garland.

I was so proud of the way they embraced the technique! And even prouder of the way they embraced the color blackness. These girls are the girliest always. When I brought out the black they all said in unison, "what is that black?" I told them that I thought information technology would be absurd to use black considering it was like the color of the niggling words on the page. After I said that, they were all like, "I want black!" It was very funny.

At that place are so many ways to use potato stamps and so many variations on this theme. Permit me know if y'all endeavour this and how it turns out!

xo,Bar

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