Handprints Crafts With Paint
Handprints are one of the most versatile craft subjects available. Easy for children and adults to turn into art, handprints can be used to create turkeys for Thanksgiving, butterflies for spring and even snowflakes for winter. They lend themselves particularly well for this last topic since, like snowflakes, every human handprint is unique.
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Handprint Flower
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Celebrate the coming of spring with a handprint flower craft. Give children a piece of butcher or art paper and four trays of different colors of paint. Have the children make fists with one of their hands and dip the bottom of their closed fist into yellow paint. Have them press that fist into the center of the paper to create the center of their flower. Let them wash their hands and then dip their open palm and fingers into one color of paint. Instruct them to make a circle with their handprints around the yellow center. Wash their hands and then have them repeat that step two more times with two different colors of paint to form a wide, bright and beautiful handprint flower. Let the papers dry and then give them to the kids to take home.
Handprint Walk
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If you’re looking for a creative way to decorate your driveway or cement walkway on your property that winds to your backyard or garden, paint one with hand prints. Have your child wear old clothes. Pour acrylic paints into separate plastic paint trays. Let them dip their hands into the paint and create a pathway with their handprints. Decide whether you want the path to be two or one handprints wide and where you want it to lead. Let the paint dry and enjoy it during the summer and fall until the outdoor weather washes the creative trail away.
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Handprint Snowflakes
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Give each child a piece of black construction paper and a tray filled with white paint. Have them use paintbrushes to paint their palms and fingers with white paint. Ask them to press their hand down on the black paper six or seven times creating a circular shape on the paper with an empty, unpainted space in the center so that the resultant shape looks somewhat like a snowflake. Wash their hands. While the craft dries, show the children pictures of snowflakes and discuss how every snowflake is different. Then, have them examine their handprints and compare them with each others’ prints to see how each one is different and unique, just like a snowflake. Help the kids cut out the handprints and hang them from the ceiling in the classroom with string to remind them of the lesson.
Handprint Tree
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A great craft for thanksgiving or the holiday season is a handprint tree. Create a tree on a piece of butcher paper. Give it a trunk and branches but no leaves. Make sure it is large enough to accommodate handprints from all the students in your class or children in your family. Pour red, orange, yellow, purple and green paint into individual trays. Let children place one hand into the paint and press their handprint onto the branches to create the leaves of the tree. Let the paint dry then have students write one thing they are grateful for inside of the handprint along with their name. Put the handprint tree up on a wall in your classroom or home for the season to remind children to be grateful for their many blessings.
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