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...the potatoes at the end of it all...
... and then the hand painting...
... and the the finished products!
I shaped the potatoes into star, flower and heart shapes, and used three different colours of fabric paint (just bought from Spotlight).
Covered the table in paper and stood back. I was plesantly suprised by how non-messy it was, but old clothes were the order of the sfternoon with it being fabric paint lol.
So I have scored some beautifully hand-decorated teatowels which Ned is very proud of. So proud, in fact, he said that Brodie could take them to football and "hang them on the fence". Don't know where that came from, but I thought it was a lovely gesture!
Needless to say the afternoon ended up wiht finger painting, shich quickly turned into hand painting, which rapidly decended into "ok kids its time to pack up" lol
POTATO STAMPING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Clean the potatoes first. Wash and towel dry.
2. Cut the potato in half and carve out the shape at the bottom (I used cookie cutters as a guide, pushing them into the flesh and then cutting away the excess potato around the edge).
3. Prepare different colors of fabric paint on shallow containers (I used small plastic plates).
4. Dip a potato stamp on paint, making sure that the bottom is evenly-coated with paint.
5. Press the stamp firmly onto the paper or fabric.
VOILA!
Rebecca ox
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