Top printing ideas for kids
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Top printing ideas for kids
Flowers printed with celery
How pretty are these flowers? They are actually made by printing with celery!
Such a quick and easy craft for kids but a lovely one to make cards for Valentine's or Mother's Day.
Printing with bubble wrap
Printing with bubble wrap is great fun and a lovely tactile activity for little ones.
Experiment with mixing different colours and overlapping the prints and you can even wrap bubble wrap round a rolling pin for a really fun way to make prints.
Printing with vegetables
Who says potatoes are the only vegetable you can print with.
Raid the vegetable drawer and have great fun printing with broccoli and carrots.
Find the step by step instructions to find out how we made this lovely flower painting here
Printing with pencil erasers
You can make lovely pictures by printing tiny dots with an eraser on the end of a pencil.
This is a lovely quiet and calming printing idea that is ideal for filling a quiet afternoon.
Find out how we made these lovely fish pictures with the step by step instructions here
Printing with cookie cutters
This one is such fun and kids will love it.
Dip cookie cutters into glue and print with them, then cover the glue prints with glitter for a sparkly picture that looks fab.
Printing with toilet roll stampers
Toilet roll tubes can be turned into stampers in minutes.
Here we made some different flower shapes with our loo roll stampers.
Printing hearts with toilet roll tubes
You'll fall in love with these easy peasy heart stampers made from a toilet roll tube.
They are brilliant for printing cards or even to make your own wrapping paper.
A super quick and easy printing activity.
Making styrofoam prints
Make some really pretty stampers from a piece of Styrofoam.
You can find Styrofoam on food packaging (often pizzas come packaged on a circle of Styrofoam).
Simply draw designs to make some super pretty stampers.
Making cork and button stampers
Cute as a button.
Make these gorgeous stampers from corks and buttons and then have fun printing with them. They can be used over and over again.
Printing with string
String dipped in paint makes some really interesting prints.
Here we have made some mirror image string prints - perhaps the end result could be turned into a butterfly?
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For more crafty fun ideas on Netmums try:
- Top modelling ideas
- Put together your own children's craft box
- Ideas for junk modelling
- Print offs to colour in
- More arts and craft ideas
Take a look at our gallery and click on the step by step instruction links to find out exactly how to make them.
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