For the Wrapper: Potato Stamp Wrapping Paper.

Make a holiday stamping kit with spuds from your own pantry.

Potato Stamp Wrapping Paper by Oreck

What you’ll need:

  • 1 large baking potato (Or sweet potato, which holds less water and seem to work better.)
  • Sharp knife
  • Pencil or toothpick to create dotted outline
  • Acrylic paint
  • Shallow bowl or plate to hold paint
  • Brown or white butcher paper

Potato Stamp Wrapping Paper Collage by Oreck

Instructions:

  1. Wash and dry the potato, then cut lengthwise.
  2. Sketch a Christmas tree onto one of the potato halves with a pencil or toothpick.
  3. Carefully cut away the potato from around your tree outline. Design should stand up at least 1 to 1/12/ inch.
  4. Pour a small amount of paint (perhaps 1/8 inch in depth) into a shallow bowl or plate.
  5. Spread paper out on a flat surface, press potato firmly into paint and begin stamping your design.
  6. To add wreaths (circles) use the other half of the potato. Carve out a circle and follow same procedure. Using another color is nice, too!

Potato Stamp Wrapping Paper by OreckOnce you’ve done the cutting (careful, now!) children would love doing the stamping and seeing plain paper transform into a festive forest of Christmas trees.

About the Author: Carole King

As Senior Copywriter for Oreck Corporation, Carole King helps consumers understand the features and benefits of our products through digital communications, direct mail, in-store signage and pithy email subject lines. Carole also lives to accessorize with vintage jewelry, pines for art deco furniture she cannot afford, digs Ella and Bette and Willie, and talks to her zinnias.

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