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DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
THUMB ART
Kim sent in a craft suggestion and somewhere along the line, it
turned into this *grin*...
This is a wonderful, yet simple craft for young children. See
the Fingerprint
characters section for instructions on how to make the various images. |
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Materials:
 | paper |
| couple colours of tempra or finger paint (we used 2, but you could
use more... just remember, you only have 2 thumbs so if you use more, you'll have to wash
off in between colors) |
| black marker |
Instructions:
| Make thumbprints on the paper. You can see in the photo that we
made
 | a thumbprint caterpillar with alternating colors, |
| a thumbprint flower (4 prints for the petals and 2 prints for the
leaves), |
| a thumbprint butterfly (4 prints of the same color), |
| a thumbprint sun (a whole bunch of prints in a circle), |
| a thumbprint bush (prints in a bunch) and |
| thumbprint grass (prints in a row)
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| you can also use single thumbprints (younger kids) and draw bug
legs/faces on them.
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| Kitty adds: for less experienced crafters, make small pencil
marks on the paper to help guide them as to where they should be putting their thumbprints
-- this helps with their hand/eye coordination, direction following skills and gets the
caterpillars to look like caterpillars!
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| Let dry
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| Take your black marker and draw legs a face on the caterpillar, a
stem and center on the flower, and a body and antenna on the butterfly. |
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