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Potato-stamp wrapping paper

Carve simple shapes into halved potatoes and stamp your own wrapping paper for Christmas or birthdays.

  • Ages 3–10best for 4–8
  • 30–60 minabout 15 mins of prep
  • Prep on the dayplan below
  • Freenothing to buy
  • At home (inside)any weather
  • Some helpmedium mess

Plan it

Good planning makes a good day. Tick things off as you go.

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You'll need

From home

  • Potatoes
  • a knife (adult)
  • paint
  • paper plates
  • butcher's paper or brown paper

To buy

  • Large roll of brown kraft paper
🪄 Wizard's tip

Spread out an old sheet first. Then let them stamp the whole roll; the 'too much' is what makes it look homemade.

How to do it

  1. Halve a potato and pat the cut side dry.
  2. Press in a cookie cutter and trim around it (adult) to leave a raised shape.
  3. Dip in a thin layer of paint on a plate.
  4. Stamp across the paper in rows or patterns.
  5. Dry flat, then wrap the presents.

Younger kids: Adults carve; kids choose the colours and stamp.

Older kids: Design a repeating pattern and carve their own stamps with a blunt knife or a cookie-cutter guide.

⚠ Safety Adults do the knife work.

Builds CreativityFine motor skillsPlanning & organising

Clean-up 15 minutes.

Make it a bigger day Use it to wrap salt dough decorations.

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Potato-stamp wrapping paper