Fruit and Vegetable Printing

This is a really simple and very effective printing activity. Choose a variety of fruits and vegetable to create prints from. We used potatoes, orange and apples. If you cut the apple across ways and remove the seeds you reveal a fabulous star shape which looks brilliant when printing. 

I cut a few apples, oranges and potatoes in half and mixed up some simple colours in poster paints on some lids from margarine containers.

The fruit and vegetables were cut into chunky pieces that were easy for little hands to hold. 

Sliding the fruit and veg made some great colouring mixing occur!

We also had some great paint pads which worked brilliantly with the oranges showing all of the lines and details very clearly.

 Some hand painting and face painting added to the sensory experience.   

 The results were simple yet very effective and will look great on my wall!