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   Handprint Tulips
         

      This is a wonderful craft for kids who like to get messy. 
        

Materials you will need for the tulips are:

bullet white paper (we used construction paper)
  

bullet green finger paint and red finger paint  (or pink, white or yellow…) 


   

Directions:

bullet Dip the forearm (from elbow to wrist) in green finger paint.  If you don't have a tray big enough to accommodate this, just paint the finger paint onto the forearm with a paintbrush.
 

bullet Press the arm down 3 or 4 times onto a sheet of white paper (construction paper works great!) to make the stems of the tulips  

         

                                                                    

bullet Now dip the hand (excluding the thumb) into red finger paint and stamp on top of the stems (holding the thumb up) to make the tulip flowers.  
  

bullet Keep the fingers close together.

                                                                             

bullet You can add fingerprint green stems, thumbprint green grass, thumbprint caterpillars and thumbprint butterflies…With a black marker draw a body and antennae

caterpillar fingerprint craft

 

 

 

 

 

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