V is for vulture! Help your toddler learn about the letter V by making a fun vulture handprint craft.
Materials
- Black, red, and white nontoxic paint
- Blank paper
- Paper plate or scrap cardboard
- Cotton ball
- Cotton swab or paintbrush
Instructions
- Pour some black paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of black paint on your child’s hand.
- Press a handprint into the center of the page with the fingers pointing down at an angle
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Pour some red paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of red paint on your child’s palm.
- Press the red palm print onto the paper at the palm of the red handprint.
- Wash the paint off your child’s hand.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of red paint on your child’s finger.
- Press the fingerprint onto the red palm print.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Pour some white paint onto the cardboard.
- Use a cotton ball to spread a thin layer of white paint onto your child’s finger tip.
- Press three white fingertip prints onto the space at which the black handprint meets the red palm print. Reapply the paint as needed.
- Wash the paint off your child’s finger.
- Use a paintbrush to paint a black eye in the center of the red palm print.
- Use a paintbrush to paint “V is for vulture” in red on the paper.
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Image Credits
V Is for Vulture Handprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Red, White, and Black Acrylic Paint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Black Handprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Red Palm Print © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding a Red Fingerprint © 2014 Heather Johnson
Adding Three White Fingerprints © 2014 Heather Johnson
Painting a Black Eye © 2014 Heather Johnson
Finished V Is for Vulture Handprint Craft © 2014 Heather Johnson
Completed V Is for Vulture Handprint Craft © 2017 Heather Johnson