Potato stamps: handicrafts for children aged 2 and over
You may already know this printing technique from your childhood days. Cut simple motifs into potatoes or corks and stamping can begin.
Age: from 3 years
What you need: finger paint, paper, potatoes or corks, kitchen knife
Craft instructions for potato stamps or cork stamps
- Before your child can stamp, you still have to prepare a few things. Choose potatoes of different sizes, which you then halve, quarter or cut into sticks. It’s even funnier to cut simple motifs such as triangles, squares, stars or hearts into the potatoes with a sharp kitchen knife. Wine or champagne corks are also ideal as stamps.
- Place desired shades on a plate.
- Now it’s finally your child’s turn! Simply dip the potato stamp or cork stamp in the finger paint and press it firmly onto the paper or move it back and forth on the spot so that the entire stamp motif is printed.
- While smaller children are fascinated by the process of stamping itself, older children enjoy using one color per stamp and using them to create patterns and areas.