How to Make Fruit and Vegetable Prints
Fruits and vegetables cut into slices can make terrific, unique looking stamps for craft projects. Kids love stamping with fruits and vegetables to make paintings and prints. This is a fun family or homeschool project. Follow these steps to make prints with fruits and vegetables.
Things You'll Need
- Tempera paint
- Styrofoam tray or plate
- Sponge
- Vegetables and fruits
- Knife
- Paper or cardstock
Instructions
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Prepare the tempera paint for your project. Put the paint into a Styrofoam tray or plate and mix in a bit of flour or glue to make it thicker and stickier for painting.
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Place a sponge in the tray. Get it nice and wet with paint on one side and turn it up so that the wet side is pointing upward. It is good to use a sponge because it helps you to get only a little bit of paint on your vegetable or fruit piece so that the print won't come out too goopy.
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Slice a piece of vegetable or fruit in half or into quarters to make your print. Some good veggies and fruits to use include mushrooms, starfruit, carrots, potatoes, oranges, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes, apples or avocados. Remove seeds from the fruit before using.
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Dip the fruit or vegetable slice lightly onto the sponge. Stamp them onto paper or cardstock.
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Lift the fruit or vegetable gently off the page to reveal your print. Be creative with your project and use different kinds of shapes for your masterpiece.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also paint directly onto the vegetables or fruit with a paintbrush and put it directly on the paper instead of dipping it.
Make your prints on cardstock to make greeting cards.
Do this project with fabric paint and stamp onto fabric to make beautiful, unique t-shirts.
Ask an adult to slice the fruit or vegetables for this project.
Remind young children not to taste the vegetables and fruit since they are painting with them.
