F is for flamingo! Help your toddler learn about the letter F by making a fun flamingo handprint craft.
Materials
- Pink and red nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paper plate or scrap cardboard
- Cotton ball
- Cotton swab or paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some pink paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of pink paint on your child’s hand.
- Press the pink handprint into the center of the paper with the fingers and thumb together and pointing to the side.
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of pink paint on your child’s finger.
- Press the fingerprint onto the paper pointing up from the palm of the handprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of pink paint on your child’s fingertip.
- Press the fingertip print to the side of the pink fingerprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some red paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of red paint on your child’s fingertip.
- Press one small red fingertip print next to the pink fingertip print.
- Wash the paint off your child’s fingertip.
- Use a paintbrush to paint a red eye in the center of the pink fingerprint and two red legs under the pink handprint.
- Use a paintbrush to paint “F is for flamingo” in red on the paper.
Image Credits
Pink and Red Acrylic Paint © 2014 Heather Johnson
One Pink Handprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Pink Fingerprint Neck © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Pink Fingertip Print Head © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Red Fingertip Print Beak © 2014 Heather Johnson
Painting Two Red Flamingo Legs and One Red Eye © 2014 Heather Johnson
F Is for Flamingo Handprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
