Homemade Fingerprint Cards
Here is a fun project to do with your littles that grandparents and relatives will LOVE! Get some washable ink pads, plain cardstock and a nice supply of baby wipes and you have the makings for some easy, fun and very "Awwww" inducing cards.
I always love to make cards using the kidlet's thumbprints which we turn into some sort of design. It not only let's you capture their fingerprints at a certain age but let's others in your family have a little artwork from your budding picasso(s) that doesn't look like the typical little kid chicken scratch.
For Valentine's day, we make thumbprints into hearts and flowers. For Easter, we turn them into bunnies. For Birthdays, they become cupcakes, candles and 2-tiered birthday cakes (these ones are great to give to all their little friends and cousins at their birthdays!) Mother's Day, more flowers, Father's Day, ties. Really, the list goes on...whatever your imagination comes up with :) Sometimes I'll embellish their thumbprints with some hand drawn additions just so the pictures aren't too abstract.
It's fun, really!!!
Go ahead and try it, your grandparents will thank you!
Fingerprint Cards
Different colors of washable ink pads
Plain cardstock
Baby wipes (to wipe off little fingers before they use the next color)
Butcher paper (for your table...so they can put their little hands anywhere without giving us mommas a heart attack!)
The artist deep in thought.
YES, she is wearing her swimming suit and YES, it's winter in Illinois, you see
I bought her a new one for a trip to a water park resort we are taking next month and wanted her to try it on to see if it fit. She wouldn't take it off :) Pick your battles, right!?!
Dirty fingers and little boys go together nicely...and dirty fingernails too...Eeeew!
In the zone.
♥ A Valentine's card from Noah and Penny ♥
Little baby hearts from little baby Penny!
A garden of violets for Grandma Joyce and Grandpa Marc
(FYI, Bobo is Noah's word for grandma/grandpa!)
A mess, I mean bouquet, of flowers!
And some Easter cards...
Have fun getting messy with your littles!
They'll Love it!
And so will you!
See, even I had to take a few deep breathes after seeing this:
(Her mouth and cheeks all the way back to her ears, hands, arms and chest are covered in marker and ink from the inkpad!!!)
Thank goodness for washable markers is all I have to say!!
Labels: Crafty Fun, Life with Kids, Projects for Littles, Tutorials
posted by Maggie @ 1/28/2010
14 Comments:
That is such a lovely idea!
Just found your blog, and love it. I'll be trying these sweet cards with my two year old!
Aw, I love fingerprint art, even though we haven't done much lately (actually, none with my youngest!!). Does your littlest one actually let you help any with the placement of the fingerprints?
I love this idea. My nephew is in preschool and his teacher made calendars and had them do the finger print things. I thought was super cute and means so much more then something that is not personal!
Katy-
Yes, if I do the cards that need some type of finger placement first they both will let me do it. I just have to be fast and then let them go wild afterwards. That seems to work for me :)
-Mags
I once checked a book out of the library with some thumbprint ideas like these. Your cards are adorable!
I love fingerprint drawings. And I love that she is wearing her bathing suit. I'm sure I've had a bathing suit clad little one running around here while it is 20 degrees outside too!
Found your site from Skip to My Lou, it's great I'll be back. :) I love the cards, Ed Emberley has a line of books that shows you how to draw all kinds of things with your thumbprints and fingerprints, check them out. ;)
I'm so doing this w/my grandson. Every time he comes over, we either paint, color, stamp or do stickers - depending upon my energy level. He's 2-1/2. He's totally into stamps now so this is PERFECT! TY, TY, TY!
I think this is beyond adorable! I am going to post the link to your site on my blog. http://floridafrugalfamily.blogspot.com/
ACK! Fingerprint art! Why didn't I ever think of that! *Banging head against wall*
That's it! On my blog roll you go!
oooh, I did that for my kid's parties at school. It makes for a quick and easy party activity. We did spiders for Halloween and reindeer for Christmas. The kids love to add those mini googlie eyes too. Great idea!
Those are so cute! I can't wait to try...Love the last picture by the way
Thanks for the brilliant idea. I'll be featuring this on our DIY Literacy Projects at www.onthelap.org. Stop by sometime and visit, grab our "featured" button and help spread the word. Thanks again.
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