I grew a lot of little gourds in our garden this year and they were on display in the kitchen through Thanksgiving. We started on Christmas decorations now so they had to go. I cut them in half and saved the seeds to plant in the spring and I saved the tops with stems so the kids could dip them in paint and make prints with them. They worked really well for stamping and made great circle shapes in various sizes. I think they worked better than other vegetables I have used to print with because they were pretty dry and held the paint well. I set the kids up with 2 trays, one with cool colors (blues and greens) and one with warm (yellow, red & orange) so that when mixing took place we wouldn’t get muddy colors.

To my surprise the boys were done with their paintings really quickly and didn’t want to make a second. When they were done I set up Jamie (16 months old) with a fresh piece of paper and she loved it. After I showed her twice how to dip in the paint and then print she got it and filled the entire paper with prints. She was very into it and very smiley. I had expected she’d just try to eat the paint and the gourds but it was Ethan who was silly and pretended to do that!

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