by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home

Do you remember making potato stamps as a kid" I remember doing it once or twice, and I thought my kids would have a good time with them, too. They're surprisingly easy to make...and the kids loved investigating all the vegetables we used.
Any sturdy root vegetable will do -- potatoes or beets or turnips are all great ones. Fun fact: we actually stamped with the beets for a while using just their natural veggie juices. They make this lovely red color. But they do stain. My hands were pink for a few days after, and I wouldn't wear clothes you care about.
The simplest way to explain how to make vegetable stamps is probably to show you. So I made a video:
So fun and simple. Obviously you'll need to do the cutting part yourself. But you can have the kids pick out the veggies and shapes, and help put the cookie cutter in the potato. And of course they can stamp with them when you're finished.
What you'll need:

sturdy vegetables like potatoes, beets, or turnips
small cookie cutters (metal are probably best -- they need to hold up when pushed into a raw potato!)
a sharp kitchen knife (for parents to use!)
tempera paints and paper

Instructions:
Cut your vegetable in half. Press the cookie cutter into the middle of the vegetable.

Using the kitchen knife, cut around the cookie cutter. Slide the ring you have sliced off.

 
Dip the vegetable into tempera paint and stamp away!

You could change up cookie cutters and make stamps for d...