Can your
child make vegetable stamps?
Come summer,
come vacations. Children are relatively free during this
holiday season. IndoIndians presents fun-filled
activities for children that can keep them engaged during holidays
and after-school hours. Here is the first in the series. Teach
your child to make vegetable stamps!
Ask your
children to collect these items and supervise their use:
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Any seasonal
vegetable (ladyfinger, capsicum, potato, carrot, radish or
baby corn)
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Watercolour
tubes
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Knife
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Sheets of
paper
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Small bowl
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Paintbrush
Ladyfinger
Stamp
Take a
ladyfinger, wash and cut it into two halves. Squeeze some
watercolour (any colour of your choice) from the tube in a bowl
and add a few drops of water to dilute it. Mix the paint well with
a paintbrush. Keep it little thick to get better results. Take a
sheet of paper and fix it on a hard board. Dip the freshly cut
face of one of the two halves of the ladyfinger into the paint.
Once it is well coated your vegetable stamp is ready for use. Put
its impression on the sheet of paper to get any pattern. Let
your child’s imagination run wild with new patterns.
Potato
Stamp
Take a big
potato. Cut it into two halves and draw (with a ball pen) any
design (e.g. a star, triangle, an alphabet or your name) on the
cut surface. Cut off the unused portions very carefully with the
help of a knife to retain only the desired shape. The carved end
of the potato will show a colourful pattern when you dip it in the
paint and stamp it on a paper.
Multiple
stamps
Not just
ladyfinger or capsicum, but most vegetables can give rise to
interesting patterns. Even a cauliflower or radish can play
wonders. For interesting and exciting colour play, stamp different
vegetables at different places on a paper. The collage can yield
great results. To make the
activity more colourful, use more than one colour. Compare
paper impressions of different vegetables on a sheet of paper.
The symmetry will leave your child amazed!
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