Easter Potato Printing

Create colourful prints with potatoes and paint!

First cut the potatoes in half - try to ensure you have an egg shaped potato when it's cut in half.

Then, very carefully, carve out some patterns.  We did zig zags, stripes and attempted spots but that wasn't very easy - maybe some sort of special tool would have made spots easier.



Now you can either dip the potato straight into the paint and start printing or if you want different colours on each print you'll need to paint the colours onto the potato with a brush as we have done here.

Happy Easter!

Collage Snowmen

I love this activity, it's so much fun and because you don't actually glue anything in place you can keep changing the snowman time and time again.







To make it you will just need a few bits of ribbon and buttons and something for the snowman's body and hats.  

I used craft felt and foam but you could easily use circles of card and I've also seen cotton pads being used.












We also collected twigs from the garden for his arms and used googly eyes from our craft stash.


He's been built on top of turquoise paper because it's a lovely colour and shows everything up well!