Potato Print Walrus Card - Enjoyable Artic Animals - Pink Ted Artwork - OpenAI24

Lastly attending to share these cuties from again in Dec/ January!!! It has been slightly hectic right here. We love making fast and simple Thank You Playing cards which can be enjoyable for the children to make within the interval after Christmas.. earlier than they head again to highschool. We’ve been having enjoyable with potato print animals for a number of years now.. and including to our cute Polar Bears and Penguin playing cards, we now have the artic Potato Print Walrus Card. Isn’t he ADORABLE? Swap the colors out to greys and they’d make cute Potato Print Seals too!

Potato print walrus cards — Made in Dec 2021

Walrus Valentines Card / Walrus Mom’s Day Card/ Walrus Birthday Card

walrus print cards — After getting made your fundamental Walrus Artwork.. how are you going to embellish it to swimsuit the completely different seasons?!

We like turning ANY of our greeting playing cards into “multi goal” or “multi occassion playing cards”. Although in fact we made our walrus print card as “Thank You Playing cards” after the Christmas interval, I believe you possibly can simply adapt it for Valentines Card making, Mom’s Day Playing cards or Birthday playing cards (significantly for anybody feeling “outdated”). Listed here are some Walrus associated puns and messages you possibly can add (plus a few sneaky seals if you wish to use these as an alternative:

Walrus of Love
I Walrus Love You
Simply floating by to say…
Flawless, just like the Walrus
Seal of approval
Your SEAL-rously outdated

You may then additionally add Birthday Occasion Hats, balloons or paper coronary heart shapes to your Walrus playing cards so as to add the completion for the event you’re utilizing the handcrafted card for!

Craft Provides Neeed to make Potato Stamping Walruses

potato printing thank you cards supplies — We might have borrowed this “provides” photograph from our Potato Print Polar Bears

A potato
A pointy knife (adults solely)
Cardstock (I had a pleasant set of cream A6 playing cards left over from some Christmas card sending)
brown paint
White paint
Black markers/ pink markers
A bit of piece of paper for the tusks – scraps will do
A bit of glue
Scissors
OPTIONAL: tissue paper in several blues*
OPTIONAL: googly eyes (however I favor to not use them nowadays and be extra eco pleasant!)

Please word: I had a rummage within the craft field to see if I had any blue tissue paper/ crepe paper and hurrah – I did! However please don’t rush out and make costly purchases at interest lobbly or the greenback retailer. Crafting ought to all the time be cheap, as eco pleasant as doable and primarily based utilizing supplies you have already got!

So should you don’t have clean greeting playing cards, reduce card and fold it (you can also make pretty sq. greeting playing cards then). Or use building paper and stick it to some recycled card. When you don’t have brown paint.. possibly you should utilize black and white paint to make gray walruses? Or blue or purples… actually.. work with what you have got!

Easy methods to make Potato Print Walrus greeting playing cards – Step by Step directions

Potato printing is a extremely enjoyable venture to do with youngsters of all ages. However preschoolers particularly love working with them. An incredible alternative to get caught in and get messy!

A high tip: typically the potato “sucks” onto the paper and will be tough to elevate off. Or typically preschoolers with sensory points might not like the texture of the paint… you should utilize a fork as a “deal with” to your potato to make issues simpler!

The primary two steps are extra imporant than you assume.. so please learn on fastidiously:

1 Minimize the Potato with a pointy knife

Obvioulsy, you need to reduce the potato! Ha. And it’s tempting to let your preschooler give this in the past – particularly should you subscribe to the varsity or studying by doing. However I like to recommend you narrow the potato in half FOR your kindergartners or preschoolers. You need to get a clean a floor as doable, in order that the potato print, prints evenly! That is greatest achieved with a pointy knife! So please, do reduce the potato in half on your youngsters. Size methods for an grownup walrus potato. And throughout its width for a child walrus potato!

2 Pat your potato dry

Once more, this a not so apparent step and many individuals typically skip it! However a dry potato will maintain the paint higher and likewise print higher! So do dry it on an artwork material or a bit of kitchen paper towel first.

3 Load your potato with Walrus colored paint

We like including paint to our potato with a paint brush… however you possibly can simply add paint to a dish or plate and dip the potato in.

4 Make your walrus physique potato print

Time to lastly get printing! Make your walrus physique potato print. Press down fastidiously along with your fingers to get a fair print throughout. You may print twice if you want!

5 Add your fingerprint Walrus Options

add walrus feet finger prints — Fingerprint flippers flip this into a stunning memento artwork venture

I like that this preschooler walrus artwork venture additionally incorporates some fingerprinting. Nice sensory enjoyable, but additionally a stunning method to create some fingerprint memento artwork.

You’ll need to make two fingerprints on the base of the potato walrus physique along with your fingers. These are the walrus’s flippers.

Add slightly white paint to your brown, to make a lighter brown/ beige color, for the walrus’s face. Make two extra fingerprints.

Now let your walrus dry absolutely!

6 Add walrus facial options with markers

Now it’s time for some walrus eyes, a nostril and a few particulars to the walrus ft!

7 Walrus tusks constituted of scraps of paper

The walrus tusks are merely paper triangles reduce out from scrap items of paper and glued in place with a glue stick!

Isn’t this little walrus artwork venture cute??? You may both depart the walrus “as is” or you possibly can beautify it additional if you want! We made a mixture of Thank You Playing cards, Birthday playing cards and Valentine’s Day card!

Work with what supplies you have got already and don’t buy something new! I discovered completely different colored blue tissue paper in my craft field and added the ocean – although my daughter thinks it appears just like the Northern lights.. I assume that works too!

Isn’t this man cute? Anyway.. the children aren’t any busy writing IN the Potato Print Walrus Playing cards, so we are able to then go off and publish them to our family members as Thank Yous for his or her Christmas items!

There are a selection of antartic/ arctic animals you possibly can discover! From owls (the precise form for potatoes for certain!) to penguins and polar bears. And sure, earlier than you say something.. penguins stay on the antartic.. however they nonetheless make a terrific Winter Animal Artwork theme!!

Easy Penguin cards to make with preschoolers

And listed below are the stunning Potato Print polar bears. Aren’t they cute? And really easy to make too!

And as we head OUT of the Winter season and into Spring.. how about these cutest of cute potato print frog playing cards? As with the walrus (and all of the potato print animals), you possibly can simply customise it for various events:

Take a look at extra fabulous Winter Card Making concepts appropriate on your annual Thank You Card Writing, together with our enjoyable potato stamping penguins: