Another Idea for Fun With Handprints
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crafts_for_kidsSo it's taken me a while to get around to posting any more of the things that we've been doing, but here we go with one that was very simple and lots of fun. All you really need is some paint, some paper and some glue.
We made 'owls' (really they could be any bird of your choice I suppose, but owls worked well for us). At their simplest, they're a handprint of brown paint with an orange beak and a pair of eyes stuck on. We used googly eyes because I happened to have some hanging around, but they'd be just as good with cut out paper eyes. In this case I did the cutting out because I was working with a two year old, but she did all the sticking and painting her own hand etc, a slightly older child could do the cutting out themselves.
Because Christmas is coming we decided to take it a step further and give the owls a Santa Hat each
They're now fine for sticking on the wall/door as they are or for sticking on a blank card to make a Christmas card. I haven't quite decided what we'll do with ours - time is on our side at the moment!
The nice thing about these is that the owls are adaptable - they can be given any kind of accessory to indicate a season or festival - summer hats and sunglasses or whatever - I'd love to hear people's suggestions for how to adapt it to other situations. They're suitable for a range of ages with children's ability to do the cutting and the designing and so on increasing as they grow.
Anyway, I'm hoping to get some more ideas up here over the next few days/weeks, but do remember you're free to share your ideas with us too.
We made 'owls' (really they could be any bird of your choice I suppose, but owls worked well for us). At their simplest, they're a handprint of brown paint with an orange beak and a pair of eyes stuck on. We used googly eyes because I happened to have some hanging around, but they'd be just as good with cut out paper eyes. In this case I did the cutting out because I was working with a two year old, but she did all the sticking and painting her own hand etc, a slightly older child could do the cutting out themselves.
Because Christmas is coming we decided to take it a step further and give the owls a Santa Hat each
They're now fine for sticking on the wall/door as they are or for sticking on a blank card to make a Christmas card. I haven't quite decided what we'll do with ours - time is on our side at the moment!
The nice thing about these is that the owls are adaptable - they can be given any kind of accessory to indicate a season or festival - summer hats and sunglasses or whatever - I'd love to hear people's suggestions for how to adapt it to other situations. They're suitable for a range of ages with children's ability to do the cutting and the designing and so on increasing as they grow.
Anyway, I'm hoping to get some more ideas up here over the next few days/weeks, but do remember you're free to share your ideas with us too.
