How to Make Children's Paint Stampers from Potatoes

Choose your potato and cut it in half. Rinse and dry the potato.

Choose your designs (you can have one design per potato half.) Keep the designs fairly simple.

Draw (or trace) a design onto the flat, cut inside part of a potato half. We will use a heart as an example. Draw a simple heart or cut one from paper and trace it onto the potato.

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.)

Again, with an adult, use the sharp knife to carefully cut away the potato from the sides (about 1/4 from the top edge) inward, up to the lines where you drew your picture and cut into 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.

Dry the potato again (and before each use.)

To use liquid acrylic craft paint or poster paint, pour a little paint onto a washable plate (or, use a disposable plate or aluminum foil, etc.)

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, Paper, Gift Wrap, etc.) Don't use too much paint and don't move the stamp from side to side - press down and lift straight up, carefully.

Repeat as many times as desired.

Before changing paint color, rinse potato and dry thoroughly.

Finished.