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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Love Bug Craft
This can easily be modified
into a NON valentine's day insect project. Just use brown or some other insect
coloured paint.
This is a nice easy craft that works well for
all ages. You can turn it into a Valentine's Card for Mom and Dad or just make a
picture to hang on the wall.
There is no template with this project.
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Materials:
 | Red, white, purple, and/or pink tempra paints
(not too thick).
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| Red, pink, purple or white construction paper.
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Instructions:
| Have child dip their fingertip into the paint
(you might want to test this yourself a few times to get the paint consistency right...
you want it thick enough to hold the shape and thin enough to show that it's a
fingerprint).
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| Make some fingerprint marks on the construction
paper.
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| Use all 5 fingers for different sized bugs
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| When the paint dries, draw little legs on the
fingerprints to make Love Bugs. An adult may need to do this step for younger
children. Older kids can do it themselves.
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| Decorate further with green tissue paper grass
and cotton ball clouds or pick the best bug and cut out a heart shape around it to make a
Valentine's Card
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| Other ideas include:
 | making a fingerprint and overlapping with another
fingerprint slightly off center... this sometimes looks like a heart and sometimes looks
like a bug with it's wings spread. |
| putting two paint colours (red and white work
well) in a plate and swirling them with a pencil or craft stick. The fingerprints
then come out multi coloured. |
| making a pinky fingerprint as a flower center and
thumbprints around as the petals.
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| Add a poem if you like |
Here's a little Love
Bug
to watch over you.
You love him
and he'll love you too!
HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY
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