How to Make Potato Prints
A fun activity to celebrate St. Patrick's Day is making potato prints. You can make potato prints with your family and have fun decorating pictures, gift bags, cards and photo frames. You probably already have most of the items that you need for this project at home. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Slice the potato in half. Cut more to create more stamps. Each potato makes two stamps.
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Draw a design on a piece of paper. Make simple shapes that stamp well. Consider drawing circles, hearts, stars, letters and a four-leaf clover. You can draw more intricate designs if you are good at carving.
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Cut out the shape from the paper. Place the shape against the potato on the flat side. Trace the shape onto the potato using a fine-point pen. Create an indentation by pressing firmly as you trace the shape.
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Carve from the perimeter of the shape outward, leaving the shape intact. Remove all the area around the design about 1/2 inch deep. Your shape should stand out from the rest of the potato.
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Pour paint into a container wide enough to fit your potato. The container needs to be shallow. Use several containers for different colors.
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Dip your potato into the paint. Let excess paint drip off. Press your potato against the surface you want to print on.
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Decorate your project with several potato prints. Have fun making designs and patterns in different colors with your potato prints.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep your paper flat so the paint doesn't run.
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Comments
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ivyvines
Dec 03, 2007
Using cookie cutter to cut out potato stamps makes the job a lot easier. Press a cookie cutter into the potato half, then using a sharp knife, cut around the potato. This way, the difficult part of cutting the shape on the potato is taken care of by the cookie cutter. Ivy -
ivyvines
Dec 03, 2007
Using cookie cutter to cut out potato stamps makes the job a lot easier. Press a cookie cutter into the potato half, then using a sharp knife, cut around the potato. This way, the difficult part of cutting the shape on the potato is taken care of by the cookie cutter. Ivy
