My toddler daughter and I enjoy making handprint crafts together for each holiday of the year. She loves playing in the paint. I love making a simple craft with her that locks a small piece of her in time. If you are looking for a fun craft to make with your child this holiday season, try my Three Wise Men handprint-fingerprint craft.
Materials
- Brown, blue, pink, purple, dark green, light green, and gold nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paper plate or scrap cardboard
- Cotton ball
- Paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some brown paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of brown paint on your child’s palm.
- Press three brown handprints onto the bottom of the sheet of paper with the fingers pointing down. Reapply the brown paint as necessary.
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Pour some blue paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of paint on your child’s finger.
- Press the blue fingerprint directly above the first brown handprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some pink paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of paint on your child’s finger.
- Press the pink fingerprint directly above the first brown handprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some purple paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of paint on your child’s finger.
- Press the purple fingerprint directly above the first brown handprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some light green and light brown paint onto the cardboard.
- Allow your child to decorate the bottom of the paper directly under the brown handprints with green fingerprints.
- Wash the paint off your child’s fingers.
- Pour some gold paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a paintbrush to paint gold crowns on top of the blue, pink, and purple fingerprints and to paint a gold star in the sky.
Over the past year, my daughter and I have enjoyed making handprint crafts for each holiday. For our Christmas craft this year, she and I made the Three Wise Men using handprints and fingerprints. Merry Christmas!
For more fun holiday crafts, try my M Is for Mistletoe Footprint Craft, Santa’s Sleigh and Reindeer Handprint-Footprint Craft, and Christmas Tree Handprint-Fingerprint Craft.
Image Credits
hree Wise Men Handprint-Fingerprint Craft © 2013 Heather Johnson
Brown, Blue, Pink, Purple, Dark Green, Light Green Acrylic Paint © 2013 Heather Johnson
Three Brown Handprints © 2013 Heather Johnson
Blue Fingerprint on Brown Handprint © 2013 Heather Johnson
Pink Fingerprint on Brown Handprint © 2013 Heather Johnson
Purple Fingerprint on Brown Handprint © 2013 Heather Johnson
Light Green and Dark Green Fingerprints © 2013 Heather Johnson
Gold Crowns and Christmas Star © 2013 Heather Johnson
Three Wise Men Handprint-Fingerprint Craft © 2013 Heather Johnson