Suggested Family Activity • Hand ✋ Imprints
Suggested Family Activity • Hand ✋ Imprints
If you like to turn your child’s handprint into fun pieces of art, this week’s Summer Reading
Theme of “Water Tales” will give you lots of ideas! If you take an imprint of their hand with the fingers facing down, you can turn it into a cute octopus by painting on a face in the palm area. Let them decorate an underwater scene around it – and don’t forget bubbles rising to the top! To turn their hands into a crab scuttling along a sandy beach, make two imprints – one with the fingers pointing left and one with the fingers pointing right. (The palm areas will overlap). Arrange it so that the two thumb imprints form a “V” so that these will be the eye stems of your crab sticking up. Then draw and decorate around the crab with seashells, starfish, and other sea creatures.
Kids can also use our favorite plain, white paper plates to make some cute and colorful sea creatures. If you fold a plate in half and add an extra piece of paper sticking out one end as a fin, you can turn it into a fish. Just draw an eye and mouth on the opposite end of the fin and color it in whatever color combinations you like. Kids can turn a plate into a turtle by coloring a white plate green and gluing or taping on extra pieces of paper to make a head sticking out the top, four legs, and a triangle tail. For an extra touch, they can draw circles to mimic the turtle’s shell or make it more life-like and draw interlocking octagons.
