10+ Ways to Make Your Own Stamp Sets

Yesterday, I wrote about our new and super awesome Stampville architecture stamps. We have just been loving all the different things you can create with this open-ended stamp set! And since I haven’t been able to find any other open-ended stamp sets out there, I’ve started thinking about how to make your own stamp set. 

Specifically, open-ended stamps that can be used creatively in various combinations.

So, I’ve been doing some poking around online and today, ta-da! I have gathered together a list of great ways to make your own stamp set.

10 Ways to Make Your Own Stamp Sets for Kids

Here are a variety of ways you can make your own open-ended stamps, using foam stickers, cardboard, craft foam, rubber bands, a block printing kit,  cardboard, and more!

1) Make simple wine cork stamps (on Art Bar)

2) Make your own geometric stamp set with foam pieces (on Mer Mag)

3) DIY silly face stamps (also on Mer Mag)

4) Here are some awesome DIY styrofoam stamps blocks (on Babble Dabble Do)

5) Carve your own potato stamps (on Brit + Co)

6) Make your own stamp set with erasers (on Etsy Greek Street Team)

7) Glue rubber band pieces to sturdy cardboard to make stamps (on Pajama Mama)

8) Glue buttons, straw pieces, and other small objects to a base to make interesting stamps (on Blissfully Domestic)

9) Make cardboard stamps by gluing small cardboard shapes or foam core shapes to sturdy cardboard bases (on Snowdrop and Company)

10) Carving your own lino stamps is a bit more complicated, but here’s a tutorial if you want to go that route (on Vitamini)

3 More Stamping and Printing Ideas for Kids

Besides the DIY stamp sets above, you can create a similar effect by stamping and printing with household items, building blocks, legos, erasers, and more.

1) You can print with building blocks (on The Pinterested Parent)

2) Or print with Legos (on Kitchen Table Classroom)

3) Stamp with the eraser end of a pencil (on Momtastic)

Or with a bundle of erasers (on CraftoArt)

How about you? Would you make your own stamp set? Which idea would you most like to try?

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