Print your own Christmas wrapping paper.
If you’ve been reading the press recently, you may have seen the headlines about how many Christmas wrapping papers are none recyclable. So we waste lots of resources on something we then cannot get rid or reuse. So apart from it being fun why not print your own Christmas wrapping paper and save the planet at the same time.
You will need
Cutting board
Kitchen knife
Tape or string
Acrylic or poster paint
Potatoes
Kitchen paper
Spare sheet of paper to practice on
Brown wrapping paper
Lid of a food storage box
½ inch Paint brush
Instructions
Step 1
Using the kitchen knife cut the potato in half and then score and cut out your design from one half. Choose a simple design such as a star or a stylized Christmas tree.
Step 2
Press your potato onto to kitchen paper to get rid of the excess starch. Pour some paint onto the lid.Using a paint brush apply paint to the stamp you have just made. Try the design out on a piece of scrap paper. Print on the brown paper.
Step 3
Leave the paper to dry and then wrap it round your parcel, tying it with stringand adding a bit of foliage as decoration.
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