I love the idea of making my own stamps. I’ve already tried a couple of things, such as shaping the rubber on the end of a pencil to make a bunting stamp. I also made stamps from craft foam and old bottle tops. This weeks’ effort involved recycling styrofoam sheets, we used the ones from ready-made pizzas, and printing hearts with styrofoam.
Equipment needed to make hearts with Styrofoam:
pointed end of a ballpoint pen lid
wooden heart
styrofoam sheet (we used one from a pizza box)
red paint
white paper
I pressed quite heavily and made sure I went round the heart twice as I wanted to make a deep impression in the styrofoam.
I covered the styrofoam in hearts then let my daughter paint it red which she really enjoyed.
Then we carefully placed a sheet of white paper over the top and she pressed it down with a rolling pin.
When we removed the sheet of paper it left the impression of each heart really clearly. As the styrofoam was stippled the overall effect is perfect and the hearts were really clear.
We printed on a couple of sheets as I think they’ll make great Father’s Day cards for Daddy and Grandad. A really lovely craft with instant results, and it felt great making something which didn’t cost a penny!
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what a fabulous idea , its soo great for the children to try new creative things and this would be great for old and young x
oh what a great idea! So simple and easy to do
What a lovely idea – really clever and so original. Might try something like this – easier than lino printing!
Exactly! I’ve tried a couple of printing techniques but this was definitely the easiest 🙂
What a great idea and something I would like to try with my children . Thanks for sharing x
What a great idea! Looks really lovely – i love a good freebie post.
Thank you for the idea!
What a creative idea! I used to do similar things with potatoes when at school 😉
I love this idea – super simple but really effective. Thanks for sharing x x
What a creative idea! A great way to use bits of styrofoam too!
I’ve pinned this, it’s such a clever idea and so effective.
What a great idea, I love how effective it is! x
Brilliant idea, so creative x
Love this – so simple and effective
great idea, im kind of into crafty things due to me trying to do my own decorations and its great idea
Thats wicked , kids would have so much fun .x
markmaking is the best! you can get messy and have a good fun time 🙂
Great idea, I will have to try this with Dylan next time we have pizza!
Such a simple yet great idea! I love the idea of hearts for Father’s Day too x
What a fab idea, I am on the lookout for activities for the twins, this would be great x
I’ve never thought of doing this, such a clever idea to use the Styrofoam from pizza! Looks like they will make lovely fathers day cards.
fantastic, I love printing with styrofoam, and have even cut apart cups to use for printing, thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!
This looks like a fantastic idea. Thoughtfully planned out and inexpensive. Thank you for sharing.
What a brilliant idea! Love it! Thank you for linking it with us #Pintorial
We did this a long time ago and really enjoyed it! Lots of fun for little hands