P is for peacock! Help your toddler learn about the letter P by making a fun peacock footprint and handprint craft.
Materials
- Green, yellow, blue, and orange nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paper plate or scrap cardboard
- Cotton ball
- Cotton swab or paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some green paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of green paint on your child’s hand.
- Press three green handprints in a semi-circle on the paper. Reapply the paint as needed.
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Pour some yellow paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of yellow paint on your child’s finger.
- Press yellow fingerprints in rows between the fingers of the green handprints.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some blue paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of blue paint on your child’s foot.
- Press the blue footprint with the toes pointing down in the center of the green handprints.
- Wash the paint off your child’s foot.
- Pour some orange paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of orange paint on your child’s finger.
- Press one orange fingerprint in the center of the heel of the blue footprint and two orange fingerprints under the toes of the blue footprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of yellow paint on your child’s finger.
- Press two yellow fingerprints above the one orange fingerprint.
- Use a paintbrush to paint “P is for peacock” in orange on the paper.
For more fun bird crafts, try my B Is for Birds Handprint Craft, F Is for Flamingo Handprint Craft, V Is for Vulture Handprint Craft, Q Is for Quail Handprint Craft, P Is for Parrot Handprint-Footprint Craft, E Is for Eagle Handprint Craft, D Is for Duck Handprint Craft, G Is for Goose Handprint Craft, S Is for Swan Handprint Craft, R Is for Robin Footprint Craft, Heart Peacock Valentine’s Day Craft, Coffee Filter Peacock Craft, and Paper Plate Bird Craft.
Image Credits
P Is for Peacock Handprint-Footprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Green, Yellow, Blue, and Orange Acrylic Paint © 2014 Heather Johnson
One Green Handprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Two Green Handprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Three Green Handprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding Yellow Fingerprints to the Green Handprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Blue Footprint in Center of Green Handprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding Orange Beak and Feet Fingerprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding Yellow Eye Fingerprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Finished P Is for Peacock Handprint-Footprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Completed P Is for Peacock Handprint-Footprint Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson