The kids are really into crafts this week, so we did another one today!
We did "stamping" with apples today! Certainly something to do somewhere you don't mind getting messy, but it is a fun and creative project for kiddos.
I cut our apples in half the "wrong" way (the opposite of the way that you'd cut them if you were going to eat them), so that the kids could see that the seeds make a star shape. The star didn't come out in the stamping (probably because we used thick tempura paint), but that was okay.
We used green and orange paint (kid's choice). If you want, you could ask them to do patterns or designs. I decided to just let them do what they wanted, to see where they'd end up. I put the paint onto paper plates, and gave everyone a piece of paper and half an apple.
The Princess (4) did identical lines. Green, green, orange, green green, orange.. She was delighted to have made a pattern with her stamping, and quite proud!
Bigger Bit had no interest in using the apple as a stamp. Instead, she just collected orange paint and used the apple as a large, funny shaped paint brush. She was so thrilled with her picture.
Bub did use the apple as a stamp, but was more interested in a fun discovery he made than in making any design or pattern. He noticed that the first stamp (top left of picture) that he did was the most orange, and each stamp after that became less and less orange. We stopped to look at the paint left on the apple each time, and eventually he figured out that the paint was being transfered onto the paper, so less was left on the apple to make a dark impression.
I did this with my kids when they were younger, and they absolutely loved it! We made wrapping paper with it.
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