{"id":7111,"date":"2012-12-13T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/?p=7111"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:30:35","slug":"personalised-kids-craft-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/personalised-kids-craft-christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalised Kids Craft Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

I originally had this idea that I could make some stamps and it would make writing Christmas Cards easier, as my 5 year old could just stamp his name!<\/p>\n

\"potato1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

First of all I wrote the names on paper in bubble writing and cut them out.<\/p>\n

\"potato2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Next I took a potato and cut it in half.<\/p>\n

\"letterdinpotato\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I put the letters back-to-front on the potato (the example above is a letter d)- as when printed they’d come out as their mirror image.<\/p>\n

\"Adamstamp\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I then cut around the letters carefully with a knife.<\/p>\n

\"apotato\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Some letters didn’t need reversing.<\/p>\n

\"potatotom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I got ready the things needed to introduce the children to the craft. I just used green paper but ideally card would have been better. We used red and green paint to be festive.<\/p>\n

\"festivestamping\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We made several cards – experimenting with alternating colours, or just using one colour.<\/p>\n

\"festiveadam\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We tried putting the potatoes into the trays of paint but found that there ended up being too much paint and it smudged.<\/p>\n

\"potatoinpaint\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So then we tried using a brush to paint onto the potatoes.<\/p>\n

\"potatotom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And it worked out much better.<\/p>\n

\"potatoprinting\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The children really enjoyed doing this, but it would take far too long to do this for every card.<\/p>\n

\"handtree\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then we made them more Christmassy by adding a handprint tree.<\/p>\n

\"potatotomhandprinttree\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With a little star on top.<\/p>\n

My Christmas Pinterest Board<\/a><\/p>\n

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