Homemade Stamps
Use recycled materials and found objects to make stamps!
Scavenge your home for recycled materials and turn them into stamps! Experiment with shape, colour, pattern and repetition and combine stamps with other media. Learn about reductive and additive methods of stamp creation, grounded in the history of printmaking and art history. Create an inventory of possible stamp marks. Create gift paper, stationary or decorate everyday items with your stamps. Make gifts for the holiday season.
1 Your Guide
Amber Santos is an art educator and artist with over 25 years of experience, including 15 years in online education and creating 65+ activities for the HomeLearners Network. Her multidisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in her German heritage and reclaimed Métis and Anishinaabe culture, blending paper craft, beading, textiles, and eco-conscious gardening. Amber’s curriculum combines technical fundamentals like colour theory and with somatic, wellness-centered art practices. A painter and muralist with an on-going studio practice, she also spent seven years curating the Nelson International Mural Festival of which she is a co-founder.
When I'm not making art, find me listening to music on full blast in the kitchen, dancing and making food for my family:)
2 Materials Needed
Recycled items (foam, cardboard and nature items with various textures and shapes, tape, glue, string, scissors, painting supplies (acrylic paint, brushes, cup of water, paint rag, palette or stamp pads, fabric paint if you want to paint on fabric), paper to paint on (big paper can be used as wrapping paper), carving tools, potatoes, items to stamps (boxes, wrapping paper, bags, etc.)
3 Learning Focus
- Communicating
- Creative thinking
- Positive personal identity & culture
- Social awareness & responsibility
4 Registration
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