Inside: How to make Potato Stamps and use them with kids. This is a fun and easy craft for kids of all ages.
We had so much fun painting with our potato stamps this week. All of my kids from 5 to 11 enjoyed this easy craft.
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As we are learning about the 50 states this year for our Idaho Unit Study we decided to do a potato stamp craft.
Potato stamps are cheap, easy and fun to make. This time the kids just created a picture on paper with the stamps. But you can use potato stamps to make custom kitchen towels, personalize T-shirts and more.
Potato Stamp Craft
You only need a few basic supplies to do a potato stamp craft.
Supplies:
- Potatoes
- Knife
- Cookie Cutters
- Paint or ink
- Something to stamp
- paper towels and something to protect your craft surface is also a good idea.
Making Potato Stamps
The first step is creating the stamp shapes on your potatoes. Depending on the ages of your kids you may want to do this before inviting them to join.
Older kids can have a lot of fun creating their own stamp designs.
First cut the potatoes in half, each potato will create two stamps.
The easiest way to create a potato stamp shape is to use a cookie cutter. Simply press the cookie cutter into the cut end of the potato as deep as you can.
Leave the cookie cutter in the potato and using a knife cut around the cookie cutter removing all the potato around the shape. Remove the cookie cutter and you have a stamp.
You can also freehand shapes carefully using a knife. Just remember to do your design backwards so it’s the correct direction when you stamp. I made the Idaho state shape in the wrong direction so when we stamped it was backwards!
If you mess up just cut the shape off and try again.
Our Potato Stamp Shapes
- Letter I and D
- Idaho Shape
- Lines
- Heart
- Triangle
- Square
- Circle
Potato Stamping
Once we had our potato stamps ready to go, we used cardstock and craft paint to create a fun potato stamped page to add to our Idaho unit study.
The kids used paper towels to wipe of the paint on the stamp before switching colors (you can also rinse the potatoes off if needed).
We found that if you have a lot of paint on the potatoes the stamp will slide so it takes some practice figuring out how to use these stamps.
If I was doing this craft again, I think I would use stamp ink pads for less mess, but my kids would probably pick to use paint again!
