Potato Printed Christmas Wrapping Paper

With the current relentless rain, toilet training and levels of unsociability only a 2 year old could muster, we are spending a whole lot of time at home.  Christmas is starting early here in an effort to keep us both entertained, and today we made some homemade wrapping paper using potato prints.

I used some mini christmas cookie cuts to cut the shapes into the potato, pressing the cutters in with the aid of bit of bashing from a rolling pin, and then cutting around them using a sharp knife.

 

Then I laid out a roll of kraft paper onto the floor, some kids paint and a sponge brush for applying, and we got printing.

 

I guess you could achieve some more professional looking prints using printing ink, but I rather liked the decidedly hand-done/imperfect results.

 

Just a little shopping now... so that we have something to wrap with all this paper.