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Hand art activities are always favorites with young children. They alkso lend themselves to making Calendar Art, when you want to send home a monthly calendar.
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HAND BUTTERFLIES
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Set out three colors of paint. |
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Have your toddler paint one hand in multiple colors and make an impression of his hand on a sheet of white paper(fingers open). |
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Have child wash off his hand, then paint the opposite hand with multiple colors and make an impression of his hand on the same or another sheet of white paper. |
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When hand impressions are dry, cut them out and glue the two pictures on either side of a large craft stick (or piece of cardboard cut into a large cigar shape) to create a butterfly.
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HAPPY CACTUS
You will need 12” x 18” sheets of beige construction paper, green paint and brushes, plus black marking pens.
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Invite your children to join you one at a time. |
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Help each child paint one hand and part of their arm with green tempera paint. |
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Have children hold their middle three fingers straight and touching each other, with the thumb and little finger stretched out. |
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Then have them make a green arm and hand print on their papers. |
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Set out a dishpan filled with warm soapy water and some sponges to help the children clean their arms and hands. |
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When the paint is dry, have each child draw a happy face on his or her cactus.
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SUNFLOWERS
Here is a bright and cheery hand art activity.
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Set out a small cake pan filled with ¼” of yellow
tempera paint. |
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Have child place one hand into the paint and make a
print of the yellow hand on a large piece of paper. |
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Then have your child repeat the action, by moving the
paper slightly and pressing down the palm in the same
spot, but with the fingers moving around in a circle. |
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This will create a flower with yellow petals. |
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When the yellow paint is dry, have child paint the
center of their flower brown. |
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Have your child use green paint to paint on a stem
and leaves. |
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Let children glue on real sunflower seeds onto the
brown centers of their flowers. |
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Add additional paper and let your child create a really
long stem. |
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For younger children, you may want to give them brown
paper circles to glue to the center of their handprints,
rather than having them paint the centers brown. |
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RAINBOW
FISH
This is always a fun and easy project with young children. You
will need a variety of colors of paint and brushes.
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Hold out one hand, palm up. |
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Paint stripes of colors vertically across palm. |
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Press hand on blue paper (thumb stuck out a little.) |
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When dry, add a black eye and mouth to
fish. |
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ICE CREAM CONE
- Set out three paper plates.
- Place pink paint on one, brown on another and white on the last plate.
- Have children take turns making hand prints.
- First the child chooses a color of paint and then places his hand onto the paint.
- Then he places his hand onto a piece of white paper and makes a print.
- When dry, cut out the child’s hand print.
- Give the hand print cutout along with a tan cone shape (up-side-down triangle works well).
- Have the child place glue on the top of the triangle and then place his hand print (up-side-down) on the triangle to create an ice cream cone.
- Use the ice cream cone cut outs as a boarder around a bulletin board or other location.
Variation: Let your children make double decker ice cream cones, by making two colors of hand prints.
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FLAGS
- Set out red, white and blue tempera paint along with some paint brushes.
- One at a time, have your children come up and paint one of their hands, red, white and blue, in any way they wish.
- Then have them press their painted hand sideways onto a sheet of plain paper, keeping their fingers closed, to make a hand print.
- Have a dishpan of soapy water available for hand washing.
- To complete their pictures, have the children paint a blue flag pole down from the palm end of their handprint.
Extension: Cut out paper frames for your children to glue onto their flag pictures. |
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