Make Adorable Gift Boxes (Recycled) With Potato Prints!

Potato Print Gift Box

This little project came about while trying to find something for my daughter to do! While she did a picture, I decided I just had to do a recycled cracker box! So sit down with your kids even for just a bit, and while they’re creating you can make some adorable gift boxes or even wrapping paper to have on hand!

 

Potato Prints On Recycled Box-open 

You’ll Need:

  • cookie cutters in cute shapes
  • potatoes
  • acrylic craft paint
  • a black medium tip permanent marker
  • recycled boxes from crackers, or just about anything!
  • large sheets of paper, to make wrapping paper

How To:

  1. Make potato stamps by pressing cookie cutter into potato and removing excess from around the cookie cutter— works perfectly!
  2. To print with potatoes, use paint that is on the sticky, not watery, side
  3. To use recycled boxes, carefully open boxes at seam with a knife and print on reverse side.
  4. Once your prints have dried, add details with a black permanent marker.
  5. Re-glue box with the inside out using hot glue.
  6. Use for gift giving or as cute containers in your home!

 

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23 responses to “Make Adorable Gift Boxes (Recycled) With Potato Prints!”

  1. beki Avatar
    beki

    cute idea! i have a whole bunch of boxes that i can apply this too…and i was about to take them to recycline!

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  2. amanda claire Avatar
    amanda claire

    What a great idea! I don’t have kids of my own but we have our niece coming to stay over the holidays and I’ve been making note of all the cool projects we can try whilst she is here – this is a real must because we have a ton of birthdays between August and December!!

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  3. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Great! Its so nice to prepare a whole bunch of items to have on hand, then you feel so prepared when the occasion arises! all the best!

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  4. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Great, so glad I caught you in time! You could even store them flat until you need them! All the best and enjoy! Oh, and while youre at it, why not make some cards or gift tags to match?

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  5. mother★lode Avatar
    mother★lode

    what an adorable way to wrap a gift – love it – bookmarking this!! have been thinking about potato prints, and seeing this, i love that we can combine a fun activity with making something so fun and functional! thanks for the inspiration!

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  6. Margo Avatar
    Margo

    Potato prints are always an economical way to be creative, aren’t they, Sara?
    Your fun orange birds remind me of a potato print I tried to make once. I thought of a phone – the style like a toy phone with the curved handle (or handset). I carved out the shape of the handset of the phone. Then I chose my color – a cheery orange. I stamped my phones – or rather handsets – all over my paper. I had planned to add curly lines later for the cords. I stepped back to survey my progress and was dismayed to realize that my phones looked like Cheetos! I had successfully covered a paper with nothing more than junk food. Oh dear.
    I don’t know if you have Cheetos in Israel, but they are a junk food in the chip category, and their chief feature is their shocking orange color. Needless to say, I gave up on the idea of phones and dubbed it my Cheeto artwork and called it good. But I still laugh when I think about it today.

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  7. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Hi Margo, Thanks so much for sharing that cute story! all the best.

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  8. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Youre so welcome, cant wait to see what you do with this idea! Please share!

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  9. Love and Lollipops Avatar
    Love and Lollipops

    What a wonderful idea! All your ideas are awesome, I must tell you!

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  10. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Thanks so much, thats so sweet of you! And so happy youve introduced yourself! Id love to see you sometime at my international blog linking party, plus we havent had a representative from South Africa for awhile!

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  11. Craftylocks Avatar
    Craftylocks

    I love the idea of using a cookie cutter to create the shape in the potato! We have done a lot of potato prints to create wrapping paper in the past, but will have to do some more this way now – thanks! A printmaking technique that I am about to do (planning to do it today but we will see how that goes) is using plasticine to create a print block. It is great as the children can do all the steps themselves. Hopefully I will have it posted before the week is out!!
    Regards,
    Sarah Craftylocks
    http://www.papercraftsforchildren.com/

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  12. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Hi Sarah, Nice to hear from you! Cant wait to see the platiscene printing! Maybe you could link to it at the next party? All the best!

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  13. Ida Avatar
    Ida

    I absolutely LOVE this!
    I am saving food boxes for crafts for my children. I can’t wait to make them into gift boxes. So exciting!
    Thanks!

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  14. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Youre welcome, enjoy.

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  15. mother★lode Avatar
    mother★lode

    i love this project! and i love your blog. i am constantly amazed and inspired!
    such creative, colorful, fun projects!
    i’ve included these great recycled gift boxes in my weekly roundup of inspiring projects and posts, blogged here:
    http://www.camilledawn.com/2010/07/tuesday-tumblr-6/
    thanks so much for sharing your awesomeness!
    camille =)

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  16. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Great, thanks so much, and especially for your sweet encouraging thoughts!

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  17. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    I saw your project on One Pretty Thing and had to come over to thank you for it. What a wonderful idea to use cookie cutters for potato prints — especially for those of us who have lots of trouble drawing! But it’s your color sense that makes your print so wonderful.
    Your web site is amazing. Thank you for sharing your ideas so generously.
    Elizabeth

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  18. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Hi Elizabeth, Thanks so very much for leaving a comment! Your words are so greatly appreciated, and Im so happy to share my projects with nice people like you! All the best, and do drop by for new projects all the time!

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  19. Kun Avatar
    Kun

    Nice idea, i’m a gift wrapper too.. i’ll add your site. Thks

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  20. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Thanks so much!

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  21. corelina@ozemail.com.au Avatar
    corelina@ozemail.com.au

    Hi Sara
    I work with the elderly and think this project a great one since they can do simple sticking and assisted cutting with their arthritic and dementia conditions. Do give me some website links or ideas you may have for crafts projects I can do with the elderly with such conditions. Many thanks Linda

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  22. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Hi Linda, So glad to hear youre involved in such a wonderful act of human kindness. Take a look in the category on my blog called kids crafts, and you can certainly
    find many many ideas! I would think it would also be nice to do some group projects too, like a large weaving or a quilt of some kind…all the best, and Id love to see photos of your
    projects if you ever have any!

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    maviyan

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