CRAFT – Potato Print Christmas Baubles

It’s officially the countdown to Christmas – 24 days until the big guy arrives, and 24 days to entertain a very excitable toddler!! As you will have seen from my previous posts, I LOVE making craft projects with my daughter, and over the next few weeks we will be having a Christmas theme to our creations! So far, we have made Easy Paper Christmas Trees and a Reindeer Handprint Tee! Today, we are making Christmas Bauble prints using potatoes! 🙂 These are SOOOO easy to do and lots of fun too!

To make these you will need:

• Bright coloured paint – classic Christmassy colours like red and green work well.
• White of coloured paper or card.
• A large potato
• A sharp knife or scalpel (adults only!!)
• Glue
• Decorations – we used sequins and glitter.

First you need to create your bauble print. To do this, chop the potato in half and cut two strips out of the potato to create ‘ridges’ where no paint will settle. This creates the effect of a ribbon or design on your bauble once printed. On the other half of the potato, create a different design. This could be another strip, or zig zag pattern if you prefer.

Using a plate or tray, pour some of the paint out and stamp the potato into the paint. Print on to the paper, pulling away in a firm swift motion if possible (to avoid the paint smudging). Repeat as many times as you wish! 🙂

Once dried, you can decorate your baubles. We used glue and glitter to create a shiny ribbon effect, and added some sequins. Erin LOVED the decorating part of this craft, and loved how pretty they were!

You can leave the finished design as a whole sheet of baubles or cut them individually. The baubles cut up make great features for home made Christmas Cards! 🙂

Happy crafting!!

 

Lucy x