Q is for quail! Help your toddler learn about the letter Q by making a fun quail handprint craft.
Materials
- Gray, orange, black, and blue nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paper plate or scrap cardboard
- Cotton ball
- Cotton swab or paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some gray paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of gray paint on your child’s hand.
- Press the handprint onto the center of the paper with the fingers together and pointing to the side.
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of gray paint on your child’s palm
- Press the palm print above and to the side of the thumbprint of the first handprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s palm.
- 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 a orange fingerprint to the side of the gray palm print.
- 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 finger.
- Press a black fingerprint above the gray palm print.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Use a paintbrush to attach the quail plume to the quail head and to paint on two quail legs.
- Pour some blue paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of blue paint on your child’s finger.
- Press a blue fingerprint in the center of the spot at which the handprint and palm print meet.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Use a paintbrush to paint a blue eye in the center of the gray palm print.
- Use a paintbrush to paint “Q is for quail” in blue on the paper.
Image Credits
Gray, Orange, Black, and Blue Acrylic Paint © 2014 Heather Johnson
One Gray Handprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Gray Palm Print © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding an Orange Fingerprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Black Fingerprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Painting the Quail Plume and Legs © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Blue Fingerprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Q Is for Quail Handprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson