Pinterest to the rescue! I don't remember specifics, but I recalled seeing something about making stamps with a glue gun. I grabbed some plastic snack cups, yanked the glue gun from the art cupboard, and 10 minutes later, we were ready to roll (AND I now had several sets of stamps, so more kids could do it at once!)
The steps are pretty straight-forward: Turn cups upside down, glue pattern on.
The clear cups were flat on the bottom, so they were easy. The dixie cups had a lip, so I had to add extra layers of glue to make sure it was raised above the lip.
I found it worked best if I did a layer of glue, let it harden, then went over it again with glue. If I tried to do more layers too quickly, the glue just spread out.
I then laid out some paint on paper plates, and they used them as regular stamps. I don't think ink would work well since it likely wouldn't stick to the glue properly, but you can try it!
Turned out as well as any other stamp kids use, I think! Would have turned out better if I'd taken more care to get the glue more even.
Once it dried, I added the poem we were learning that day.
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