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Vegetable Prints : Making Spring flowers with Okra & Beans

Shruti Acharya | March 18, 2015 | 13 Comments

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Are you Ready for Spring?? I just can’t have enough of the beautiful weather here in Bangalore. The mango flowers are in full bloom and come spring / summer and the city is bursting with pink, yellow and purple flowers – jacaranda, tabebuia and so many more. So I wanted to get the feel of Spring indoors and decided to use stuff from the kitchen to create a spring art work. We love Veggie printing and  have made a Antarctic theme Potato Print Penguin, Potato Print T-shirts and even tried warli ( Folk Art form of India) . This time around, we decided to try

Vegetable Prints : Making Spring flowers with Okra & Beans

A lovely Spring and Mother’s Day activity for kids to make garden art and pretty cards. They also provide an opportunity to explore a wide color palette and endless shape possibilities.

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For the Art, you’ll need –

  1.  Okra – one for each color
  2. French Bean – 1
  3. Knife
  4. White card stock
  5. Poster Colors in Red, Orange, Green, Yellow & Blue
  6. Black marker
  7. Palette
  8. Tissue paper

Spring flowers with Okra & Beans

 

To make the Spring flowers with Okra & Beans –

  1. Cut the Okra in the middle and take out the seeds carefully. When you make a sideways cut into okra a beautiful, perfect flower shape is made, ready to stamp onto paper!
  2. Pour small quantities of paint on a paper plate or palette
  3. Blot out the extra stickiness of the okra on the tissue paper
  4. Dip in paint. We dipped them in 2 colors to give a shaded effect.
  5. Stamp on paper in a circle to form a flower
  6. For the leaves & grass , Cut the French bean sideways to make a elongated leaf like stamp.
  7. Dip in green paint and print sideways
  8. For the grass, dip in green paint and dab at the bottom of the page.
  9. using the french bean, paint a stem
  10. To make the butterfly, first dip the okra in blue paint and stamp side by side to make the top of the wings.
  11. For the bottom of the wings, use okra
  12. For the body use the bean or a brush.
  13. Add details using a black marker and your Spring Craft is ready.

These would make perfect Mother’s day cards or Spring pictures.  They are also great for little hands to stamp with and such a gorgeous result..

 Vegetable Prints : Making Spring flowers with Okra & Beans

The Kids Craft Stars and I are joining forces to bring you our MONTHLY craft challenge post. Every month we have a challenge between us bloggers to in-cooperate a different craft medium or technique into a simple kid craft tutorial. This month’s challenge was to use fruits and/or veggies as stamps and I had a blast with this one!  Here are all the other awesome ideas..

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Filed Under: Art ideas, Popular Posts, Printmaking Ideas, Spring, Toddler Crafts & Activities Tagged With: Block Printing activities for kids, Easter craft for kids, Easter Crafts for Kids, Fruit and vegetable printing, How to Paint With Fruit and Vegetables, Painting with Okra, Vegetable Printing with ladies finger and beans

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About Shruti Acharya

Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

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Comments

  1. Creative Mama Renee says

    March 19, 2015 at 12:51 am

    I love the blue butterfly you made – such a clever idea. I definitely think okra will go on the shopping list so we can do some of these projects!

    Reply
    • Shruti Bhat says

      March 19, 2015 at 1:26 pm

      🙂 Yay! You just made my day. The simplest things make the best art activities 🙂 So glad you liked it. Pls do share your post / image when you do try this with your kids..

      Reply
  2. sangeetha menon says

    May 19, 2015 at 8:56 am

    simple yet clever ideas… Loved the colours used.

    Reply
  3. Nicole says

    March 15, 2016 at 1:54 am

    This art project is adorable. What a wonderful idea, I’ve heard of using other vegetables but never french beans or okra. We will have to try this with my kids they love doing art projects. Thanks for linking up with Inspire Me Monday. Have a great week.

    Reply
  4. Teresa says

    March 16, 2016 at 12:04 am

    What a great idea! My daughter will love this!

    If you have time, come and this post over at the Really Crafty link party that is live right now! (http://keepingitrreal.blogspot.com.es/2016/03/welcome-to-the-really-crafty-link-party-10.html).

    Reply
  5. Dee says

    March 16, 2016 at 11:42 am

    This is so cute and a great idea! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday! 🙂

    Reply

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