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Veggie Stamp Valentines- Easy and fun way for little ones to make their own Valentine’s Day cards!

Veggie Stamp Valentines- Easy and fun way for little ones to make their own Valentine's Day cards!

I don’t know if you ever made potato stamps as a kid, but I have vague memories of it.  The other night when my kids were getting a bit antsy and Dan wasn’t due home from work for 2 more hours, I knew we needed to do some serious crafting or I’d have World War 3 on my hands.  So I got out some veggies, craft paint, and construction paper while the kids got into their paint clothes, and we got started with Veggie Valentines.

Veggie Stamp Valentines- Easy and fun way for little ones to make their own Valentine's Day cards!

I cut the potato into chunks small enough for the kids to hold on to (we have big potatoes here in Idaho). Then I “carved” shapes on the potatoes. I did this by tracing the shape with a pencil, and then cut away the potato surrounding the shape.

veggie vdayVeggie Stamp Valentines- Easy and fun way for little ones to make their own Valentine's Day cards!

I’ve been seeing on Pinterest that if you cut off the end of a stalk of celery, it looks like a rose when you use it for paint stamping.  This would probably be more true if I hadn’t just used a bunch of the celery to make Corn Chowder, but it was still fun for the kids.  They loved the idea of using the veggies for stamping- it just seemed so silly to them! You can see the celery roses made in red paint.

Veggie Stamp Valentines- Easy and fun way for little ones to make their own Valentine's Day cards!

Important note: If you want to make letters or words, make sure you cut them out backwards. I didn’t think of this until the kids started stamping backward “I {heart} U”s.

Veggie Stamp Valentines- Easy and fun way for little ones to make their own Valentine's Day cards!The kids’ artwork hanging from our $3 Art Display

 

 Do you make Valentine’s cards? Or do you do any special Valentine’s crafts?

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