Fruit Prints 

Fruit Prints 

Encourage your children to play with their food - the results could be a work of art!
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Materials 

  • Knife
  • Apples, oranges, lemons, kiwis
  • Poster paints
  • Paper plate
  • Paintbrush
  • Felt-tip pen (any color, or matching fruit)
  • White drawing paper or card paper

Instructions 

step 1Cut a piece of fruit in half.
step 2Pour a little poster paint onto a paper plate. Spread it evenly over the bottom of the plate with a paintbrush.
step 3Press the cut side of the fruit into the paint.
step 4Lift the fruit from the plate.
step 5Press the painted fruit onto the white drawing paper. Be careful not to move the fruit as you print.
step 6Count to 10.
step 7Carefully lift the fruit to see the print.
step 8Practice making as many as you want.
step 9To create a greeting card, make one print in a corner of a piece of stock card. Then decorate another side with a felt-tip pen.
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7/8/2009 , 
estella  b.
Love it! Fruit patterns are one of my favorites. Thanx!
11/21/2008 , 
September  A.
If you buy celery whole and make your own celery sticks for lunchs, you have another great print. Cut the entire bottom off of the celery and dip it in paint or an ink pad and presto-- you have roses this also works with similar veggies as well. Use a cut stem of the celery opposite of each other next to the "rose" in green and you have leaves.
10/12/2008 , 
Jolene  M.
Great Idea using fruit! Now try this one!!!... Try using real flowers, sandwich them between paper, place on top of a magazine, use a hammer to gently pound directly on the flowers, this will transfer the color and shape of the flowers onto the paper. or use material. The color of the flowers will dye the material. (don't forget the leaves & stems) This is so much fun, not only creating the images but in seaching for the perfect flowers to use. My grand kids and I love this one.

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