Owls remind me of fall and Halloween! Help celebrate the season and holiday with your young child by making a simple but fun autumn Halloween owl footprint craft.
Materials
- Purple, green, brown, black, white, orange, red, and yellow nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paintbrush
- Scrap cardboard
- Cotton balls
- Paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some purple paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of purple paint on your child’s left foot.
- Press the left footprint with the toes pointing up on the left side of the paper.
- Wash the paint off your child’s foot.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of purple paint on your child’s right foot.
- Press the right footprint with the toes pointing up directly to the right of the left footprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s foot.
- Pour some green paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of green paint on your child’s right foot.
- Press the right footprint with the toes pointing up on the right side of the paper.
- Wash the paint off your child’s foot.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of green paint on your child’s left foot.
- Press the left footprint with the toes pointing up directly to the left of the right footprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s foot.
- Pour some brown paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a paintbrush to paint brown tree branches under and around the footprints.
- Pour some white paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of white paint on your child’s fingertip.
- Press a white fingertip print under the big toe of each footprint. Reapply the paint as needed.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some orange paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of orange paint on your child’s fingertip.
- Press three orange fingertip prints under the heel of each footprint. Reapply the paint as needed.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of orange paint on your child’s finger.
- Press an orange fingerprint between each pair of footprints. Reapply the paint as needed.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some red paint and some yellow paint onto the cardboard.
- Dip a different finger into each color of paint.
- Press red and yellow fingertip print leaves onto the brown branches.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some black paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of black paint on your child’s fingertip.
- Press a small black fingertip print in the center of each white fingertip print.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Display the autumn Halloween owl footprint craft!
For more fun owl craft ideas, try my O Is for Owl Handprint Craft, Halloween Owl Handprint-Footprint Craft, Halloween Owl Toilet Paper Roll Craft, and Snowy Owl Paper Plate Craft.
Image Credits
Autumn Halloween Owl Footprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Two Purple Footprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Two Purple Footprints and Two Green Footprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Painting on Brown Branches © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding White and Orange Fingertip Prints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding Red and Yellow Fingertip Print Leaves © 2014 Heather Johnson
Autumn Halloween Owl Footprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson