Lastly attending to share these cuties from again in Dec/ January!!! It has been slightly hectic right here. We love making fast and straightforward Thank You Playing cards which might be enjoyable for the youngsters to make within the interval after Christmas.. earlier than they head again to high school. We’ve got been having enjoyable with potato print animals for just a few years now.. and including to our cute Polar Bears and Penguin playing cards, we now have the artic Potato Print Walrus Card. Isn’t he ADORABLE? Swap the colors out to greys and they’d make cute Potato Print Seals too!

Walrus Valentines Card / Walrus Mom’s Day Card/ Walrus Birthday Card

We like turning ANY of our greeting playing cards into “multi objective” or “multi occassion playing cards”. Although in fact we made our walrus print card as “Thank You Playing cards” after the Christmas interval, I feel you’ll be able to simply adapt it for Valentines Card making, Mom’s Day Playing cards or Birthday playing cards (notably for anybody feeling “previous”). Listed here are some Walrus associated puns and messages you’ll be able to add (plus a few sneaky seals if you wish to use these as an alternative:

• Walrus of Love
• I Walrus Love You
• Simply floating by to say…
• Flawless, just like the Walrus
• Seal of approval
• Your SEAL-rously previous

You possibly can then additionally add Birthday Social gathering Hats, balloons or paper coronary heart shapes to your Walrus playing cards so as to add the final touch for the event you might be utilizing the handcrafted card for!

Craft Provides Neeed to make Potato Stamping Walruses

• A potato
• A pointy knife (adults solely)
• Cardstock (I had a pleasant set of cream A6 playing cards left over from some Christmas card sending)
• brown paint
• White paint
• Black markers/ pink markers
• Just a little piece of paper for the tusks – scraps will do
• Just a little glue
• Scissors
• OPTIONAL: tissue paper in several blues*
• OPTIONAL: googly eyes (however I favor to not use them nowadays and be extra eco pleasant!)

Please observe: I had a rummage within the craft field to see if I had any blue tissue paper/ crepe paper and hurrah – I did! However please don’t rush out and make costly purchases at pastime lobbly or the greenback retailer. Crafting ought to all the time be cheap, as eco pleasant as doable and based mostly utilizing supplies you have already got!

So if you happen to don’t have clean greeting playing cards, lower card and fold it (you may make pretty sq. greeting playing cards then). Or use development paper and stick it to some recycled card. In case you don’t have brown paint.. possibly you need to use black and white paint to make gray walruses? Or blue or purples… actually.. work with what you have got!

How one can make Potato Print Walrus greeting playing cards – Step by Step directions

Potato printing is a extremely enjoyable mission to do with youngsters of all ages. However preschoolers particularly love working with them. An ideal alternative to get caught in and get messy!

A prime tip: generally the potato “sucks” onto the paper and will be tough to elevate off. Or generally preschoolers with sensory points could not like the texture of the paint… you need to use a fork as a “deal with” to your potato to make issues simpler!

The primary two steps are extra imporant than you assume.. so please learn on rigorously:

1 Minimize the Potato with a pointy knife

Obvioulsy, it’s important to lower the potato! Ha. And it’s tempting to let your preschooler give this in the past – particularly if you happen to subscribe to the college or studying by doing. However I like to recommend you chop the potato in half FOR your kindergartners or preschoolers. You need to get a easy a floor as doable, in order that the potato print, prints evenly! That is greatest achieved with a pointy knife! So please, do lower the potato in half in your youngsters. Size methods for an grownup walrus potato. And throughout its width for a child walrus potato!

2 Pat your potato dry

Once more, this a not so apparent step and many individuals typically skip it! However a dry potato will maintain the paint higher and in addition print higher! So do dry it on an artwork material or a chunk of kitchen paper towel first.

3 Load your potato with Walrus colored paint

We like including paint to our potato with a paint brush… however you’ll be able to simply add paint to a dish or plate and dip the potato in.

4 Make your walrus physique potato print

Time to lastly get printing! Make your walrus physique potato print. Press down rigorously along with your fingers to get an excellent print throughout. You possibly can print twice if you want!

5 Add your fingerprint Walrus Options

I really like that this preschooler walrus artwork mission additionally incorporates some fingerprinting. Nice sensory enjoyable, but additionally a stunning approach to create some fingerprint souvenir artwork.

You will have to make two fingerprints on the base of the potato walrus physique along with your fingers. These are the walrus’s flippers.

Add slightly white paint to your brown, to make a lighter brown/ beige color, for the walrus’s face. Make two extra fingerprints.

Now let your walrus dry absolutely!

6 Add walrus facial options with markers

Now it’s time for some walrus eyes, a nostril and a few particulars to the walrus toes!

7 Walrus tusks made out of scraps of paper

The walrus tusks are merely paper triangles lower out from scrap items of paper and glued in place with a glue stick!

Isn’t this little walrus artwork mission lovable??? You possibly can both depart the walrus “as is” or you’ll be able to embellish it additional if you want! We made a mixture of Thank You Playing cards, Birthday playing cards and Valentine’s Day card!

Work with what supplies you have got already and don’t buy something new! I discovered totally different colored blue tissue paper in my craft field and added the ocean – although my daughter thinks it seems to be just like the Northern lights.. I suppose that works too!

Isn’t this man cute? Anyway.. the youngsters aren’t any busy writing IN the Potato Print Walrus Playing cards, so we are able to then go off and put up them to our kinfolk as Thank Yous for his or her Christmas items!

There are a selection of antartic/ arctic animals you’ll be able to discover! From owls (the proper form for potatoes for certain!) to penguins and polar bears. And sure, earlier than you say something.. penguins stay on the antartic.. however they nonetheless make a fantastic Winter Animal Artwork theme!!

And listed here are the stunning Potato Print polar bears. Aren’t they cute? And really easy to make too!

Try extra fabulous Winter Card Making concepts appropriate in your annual Thank You Card Writing, together with our enjoyable potato stamping penguins:

Feeling impressed? The Royal Academy as extra unbelievable vegetable print making artwork mission so that you can discover!