Easy Kids Crafts Vegetable Prints

Exploring painting techniques with vegetables as your stampers.

Mar 6, 2007 Belinda Mooney

Use vegetables to make interesting prints.

Studying health and nutrition and want to add an art aspect? Vegetable prints are the perfect way to do just that. This is a great craft for young children. This is a super easy kid's craft.

What you need:

• poster or other non-toxic paints
• poster board or construction paper
• Vegetables - see suggestions below
• old shirts to wear over their clothing
• newspaper to cover the table
• paper towels for hands
• and a few wiggly kids for spice

What you do:

1. Spread the table with newspaper to protect your work area.
2. Prepare the vegetables ahead of time.
3. Carrots make great stampers. You can even make impressions of the tops. Green peppers sliced across into rings are nice. Cut potatoes in half and carve designs into them for really cool stamping fun. Other ideas include radishes cut in half, mushrooms cut in half, parsnips or rutabagas work too. You can also use fruit. Roll some grapes around or cut an apple or pear into quarters.
4. Put the paint out in containers. You can use clean styrofoam meat trays to put a thin layer of paint on for dipping. They can also use paint brushes to paint their vegetable stampers.
5. Carefully stamp your vegetables onto your paper. Let dry and display this magnificent work of art.
6. Try making people, animals or things out of the different animal stamps you make. Maybe you can make a whole scene.

Share with us your vegetable painting experience! Have a craft to share? Send it to kidscrafts@suite101.com

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