Did you know that August 19th is National Potato Day? What better way to celebrate this starchy vegetable than to create a giant replica of it’s baked form! Follow along as I teach you how to create a giant baked potato craft using recycled materials and fluffy Poly-Fil Polyester Fiber Fill.
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Now if one might ask you “why are you making a giant baked potato” you can simply reply with “why not?” Making oversized versions of your favorite things is a silly thing crafters like to do. Perhaps a restaurant, food truck or farmer’s market may appreciate your oversized dedication to a popular food source!
Giant Baked Potato Supplies:
- Poly-Fil Polyester Fiber Fill
- Recycled Cardboard
- Recycled Brown Packing paper
- Recycled Cardboard Tube
- Square cardboard lid
- Slice Box Cutter
- Thermal Emergency Blanket
- Acrylic paint: shades of brown, black, tan and green
- Masking Tape
- Hot Glue
- Glue Stick
To create a giant bake potato, you’ll need to first create your basic shape from cardboard. I started with two large oval potato shapes with slits down the middle, some somewhat triangle shaped pieces seen above, and a few long strips. I cut all these with my Slice Box Cutter that slices through cardboard easily!
Slide the two oval pieces together via the slit down the middle and start table the triangular pieces on the sides. This will help give an anchor to the long strips to attach to in a later step.
Use lots of masking tape to hold this shape together. Fill in the gaps of space created with recycled materials, like newspaper, and finish with some poly-fil to make it softer.
Make sure to leave the top area open of your giant baked potato, so you can stuff it with the potato-y goodness in a later step!
Once you have full formed your baked potato shape, glue the brown packing paper around the sides. This is your potato skin!
Use different shades of brown, black and tan acrylic paint to add color to your baked potato skin. Tip: you don’t have the paint the bottom area as it will covered in the next step.
Sure, I could’ve bought a few rolls of cheap aluminum foil, but once I saw Charlotte of At Charlotte’s House use a thermal blanket to create a Hershey kiss craft, I was in love with this idea! Unwrap this blanket, which basically serves as an oversized baked potato wrap.
Turn your baked potato upside down and use a glue stick to attach it to the baked potato craft.
Wrap it up the sides and fold down the pieces to make it look like it’s just been unwrapped from the oven!
Stuff your baked potato with it’s potato filling, aka Poly-Fil! This fluffy material mimics your favorite part of this oven baked meal as it’s light and airy without the heat!
Now for the toppings! If you’re a fan of butter and chives, glue in a cardboard lid as your slab of butter and paint some pieces of a cardboard tube to resemble those varnishes that compliment your baked potato flavor.
Your oversized baked potato is now complete! Display it at the farmer’s market or turn these tips into a wearable baked potato costume this Halloween!
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