3 Easy Stamping Techniques
 

I need three easy techniques for 5th & 6th graders. We are making cards to send to the troops. Here are a couple I have:
(No embossing, please)

1) Coloring stamps with markers
2) Repetition Stamping


Thanks!

I have used the regular size wheels with ages 5-12. The wide ones are even easier.

The techniques you listed are great - how about coloring in with colored pencils. They should be able to handle that without too much guidance on your part. I like using gray as the stamp color and it looks nice colored with pencils.

How about debossing? That doesn't involve the heat gun.

Sue

eyelets? I used them with a group of 40 cub scouts (ages 6-10) and they liked it - especially when they got to hammer! We did the stamped design layered once with the eyelets and then put on the card. Everyone had fun, except my stamp pads which were groaning by the end of the evening :(

Thanks for the feedback!!!

How about trying retiform? Several kids could be taping their cards off while others are sponging or stippling.

How about a card without layers, using a postit note as a mask. Theres a sample in the "In full bloom" gallery, unfortunely I don't know how to provide the link for you, but it's a cute idea.

How about punching out various shapes and letting them do like a collage? I recently had my Girl Scout troop (5th grade) make thank you cards and we used this method. I prepunched a bunch of shapes, like squares and circles, butterflies and daisies, stars and hearts (CM punches for those last ones). Then they made cards using the punched shapes either piled on top of each other, some in conjunction with stamping. One girl glued different color squares to the front of a card and then stamped on it. I thought that was pretty inventive. Then another one (her sister) stamped onto the front of a card and cut it into pieces, and then glued it back on a different card. It helped that I had a few stamp sets that matched the punches I had (Flutterbys for the butterfly stamp, for instance.)

My daughter has been stamping with me a lot lately and she loves to use one stamp as a background and then make one layer with corresponding stamps. Stamping the background is something she really gets a kick out of, especially when she does the edges and only part of the stamp ends up on the card!

easy stamping techniques
 

The crayon resist,penny card,or the wheel techniques all are easy enough that my 9 year old son will "play" with me when I need inspiration:)

we made over 500 cards last week with 1,2 and 3rd graders! They were awsome!
We did the basic stamp and color, punch and paste, a favorite is punch out a square in a colored cardstock and stamp on a white paper and color and glue behind the square.
They should be pretty good at any basic type of stamping - my 3 year old even made a card (he of course had to go with me) and had a great time.
Have lots of baby wipes around and keep the paper cutters away from the ink stations!

I've never tried retiform. What is it all about?