Create homemade stamps to make personalized gift wrap and cards

Create your own homemade stamps and use them to make personalized gift wrap or cards. Make simple stamps out of Styrofoam and re-purpose

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Activity Description:

Step 1: Cut your Styrofoam out into the shapes you’d like your stamps to be. If you have cookie cutters at home, those can be traced for shapes if you’d like!

Step 2: Use a dull pencil to press hard into the Styrofoam shapes in order to make indents and add details to the stamp.

Step 3: (Optional) When you’re happy with your stamp, glue it to a slightly larger piece of cardboard to use as a handle. This can make it easier to stamp with small shapes and make less of a mess.

Step 4: To use the stamps, pour a thin layer of paint out onto a plate and then dip your stamp into the paint or brush it onto your stamp with a paintbrush. (or if you have ink-pads, you could use those.)

Step 5: Gently and evenly press the stamps covered in paint onto the paper to create a unique design on your wrapping paper. It may be helpful to tape down the wrapping paper while you stamp so it doesn’t slide.

Step 6: Let your creations dry and share them with family and friends!

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