We used the free Valspar paint samples (well, what was left after Silas spilled most of it!) to do Potato Stamping.
It was messy, but the girls had a blast!
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Okay, I’m lost here. I have 2 grandkids 7 & 5, always looking for something to do with them. I’m not understanding how this potato painting works. Some mentioned other veggies too??? You can’t eat them after that, right? I know I waste a lot of food….but not intentionally. Maybe I’m misunderstanding???
We used potatoes I’d gotten marked down which were past their prime and needing to be thrown out anyway.
Eee! I can’t believe you didn’t put newspaper down! Your girls are pretty clean. It doesn’t look like they got a single drop of paint on the table. We’ll actually save that brown packing paper that comes with packages and then invite some of my son’s friends over for a painting party. I’ll tape the huge sheet of paper right to our kitchen floor and then we’ll go to town. There are so many things you can do with potato stamps, especially if you just use basic shapes. They can be turned into anything!
Potato stamps are so much fun! When my kids were younger we made wrapping paper with brown grocery bags using potato stamps. Lots of fun memories doing that.
Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about potato stampers!! thanks for the memory jog. 🙂
Oh, this is adorable. I’ll have to try this with my kid sisters. 🙂
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Love potato stamps! Looks like the girls had a lot of fun!
wow they kept the table so clean! I’d have tons of messy newspaper to clean up and still paint on the table!
I love potato stamps!! I will never forget doing it in 2nd grade, and we stamped the letter in our first name. The poor roommom was doing such a sweet job, but completely forgot that the letters would print backward. LOL!! So many of us had backward first initials.
So precious! Your girls are lovely, Crystal!
You can also use carrots with the same idea. My son did it at preschool last week and the next day at the grocery store he asked if “big carrots” were on sale so he could do it at home too! Your girls are SO cute!
Angels!!! I miss that age so much. What a great memory you made.
You are so brave to do this indoors! My kids can’t even handle washable ink stamps indoors. Its more fun to stamp each other than the paper, I guess!
ha ha to funny! I have to try not to freak cause im such a neat fanatic. This would be a complete mess if i had my kids doing it.
Hehe…me, too….I have 2 and 1 yr old boys…definitely a drop cloth for me. 🙂 such a great idea! I need to loosen up and try some of this stuff…
Is the paint easily washable? I see them on their hands. =)
btw, your older one is turning to be a real beauty! (haven’t seen her in your pics…mostly the younger ones). =D
I was wondering the same thing – having 3 boys 3 and under, the first thing that popped into my mind was, “Oh my, if I did that with no plastic drop cloth underneath, I would quickly have a blue table!” And they would have painted themselves half-blue, hair and all, by the end of the activity. Even washable paint scares me off for now! 🙂
I was thinking the same thing. 🙂
You just need a good game plan! Maybe have the tub all ready to go, as soon as the painting is done, plunk them in there. I always keep a couple wet rags near me and a roll of paper towel. The first time I did paint/potato stamps with my 2 year old it was pretty crazy but then I came up with a system and now it’s a breeze!
It wasn’t “washable paint” but after Silas spilled the paint on the bathroom floor, I learned that it washed off completely if you didn’t let it dry. So I let them do handprints and then we quickly scrubbed off the paint.
I had my daughter do this a couple weeks ago. She looked at me so strangely when I said we were using potatoes to paint with! It’s always fun to experiment with different foods to see what works as a stamp.
Broccoli can be a fun one too!
I did this as a child with my mom and still remember it vividly! We stamped on butcher paper and used it as wrapping paper later.
Love your posts. Little cuties. It’s so neat watching them all grow up on MSM.
So much fun! Heres a helpful hint…. Whenever my daughter paints or plays with playdoh, I have a plastic tablecloth. That way If paint gets on it, its ok. Also the little plahdoh pieces I get EVERYWHERE, I just fold up the table cloth and shake it off outside! 😉 You can ususally get them dirt cheap after a holiday …like Easter! =)
I use an old shower liner that had seen better days. It works perfectly!
If you cut the base end off of celery and dry the cut edge, you can use it to stamp as well and the cool thing is, it looks like a rosette.
How long did it keep them busy?
So cute. Great idea of taking kids away from TV. Will try this with my kids too.
We love potato stamps! We use fabric paint & cut out potatos on T-shirts. The come out adorable and wash great!
Super adorable!! I am having my daughter do that with our sample too! But potatos and apples =]
Crystal – your girls are adorable! 🙂