How to Make Children's Paint Stampers from Potatoes

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Choose your potato and cut it in half.

   Rinse and dry the potato.
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   Step 2: Choose your designs (you can have one design per potato half.)

   Keep the designs fairly simple. , We will use a heart as an example.
   
   Draw a simple heart or cut one from paper and trace it onto the potato. , , This should leave a heart in the middle of the flat, cut end of the potato that sticks up above the part you removed with the knife. , , , Don't use too much paint and don't move the stamp from side to side
   - press down and lift straight up, carefully. ,,,
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   Step 3: Draw (or trace) a design onto the flat

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   Step 4: cut inside part of a potato half.

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   Step 5: Have an adult use a sharp knife to cut straight down into the potato along the lines of your drawing (about 1/4 inch deep.)

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   Step 6: with an adult

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   Step 7: use the sharp knife to carefully cut away the potato from the sides (about 1/4 from the top edge) inward

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   Step 8: up to the lines where you drew your picture and cut into the potato.

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   Step 9: Dry the potato again (and before each use.)

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    Step 10: To use liquid acrylic craft paint or poster paint

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    Step 11: pour a little paint onto a washable plate (or

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    Step 12: use a disposable plate or aluminum foil

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    Step 13: Barely touch the "stamp" (in this case the heart) to the paint and then carefully put the stamp onto the article you wish to decorate (T-shirt

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    Step 14: Gift Wrap

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    Step 15: Repeat as many times as desired.

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    Step 16: Before changing paint color

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    Step 17: rinse potato and dry thoroughly.

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    Step 18: Finished.

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