Hand Print Tutu

Materials:

• Pink poster paint
• Pink ribbon
• 2 pieces of white cardboard paper
• Embellishment such as a butterfly

Handprint Zebra

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Black poster paint
• White poster paint
• Black kokie
• Googly eye
• White craft glue
• Red cardboard paper

Fire Fighter Hand Print

Materials:

• Red poster paint
• Blue glitter glue
• Orange kokie
• Brown kokie
• Black kokie
• Red kokie
• White cardboard paper

Paper Plate Clown

Age Group: 4 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Paper plate
• White cardboard paper
• Coloured cardboard paper
• 2 pom-poms
• Crayons
• Kokies
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Cut out a long triangular shape from the white cardboard and colour it in with different coloured crayons to make the clown's hat.
2. Trace your child's hands on the coloured cardboard and cut them out to create the clown's hair.
3. With a black kokie, draw on the clown's eyes.
4. With two different coloured kokies, draw rectangles around the eyes.
5. With a pink kokie, draw circles for cheeks and with a red kokie, draw a mouth.
6. Use craft glue to stick the hand prints to the back of the paper plate and the hat onto the front of the paper plate.
7. Use craft glue to stick a pom-pom on the top of the hat and another pom-pom for a nose.

Paper Plate Frog # 1

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• White cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Black kokie
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Green paint 

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate green and put aside to dry.
2. Whilst the plate dries, trace your child's hands onto the green cardboard paper and cut them out.
3. Cut out two long oval shaped eyes.
4. With the black kokie, draw smaller half ovals near the bottom of the eyes and colour them in for the pupils.
5. Once the plate has dried, use craft glue to stick the hands and eyes to the back of the plate.
6. Draw in a mouth and nostrils with the black kokie. 

Handprint Sea Scene

Materials:

• Poster paint
• Small circular sponge
• 5 googly eyes
• White craft glue

Paper Plate Frog # 2

3 year old

2 year old

 Materials:

• Paper plate
• Green poster paint
• Pink poster paint
• Black poster paint
• 2 A4 pieces of white cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Paint the underside of the paper plate green.
2. Paint your child's hands green and place them on one of the white pieces of card.
3. Cut out a strip from the other piece of white card and paint it pink.
4. Let everything dry.
5. Once the handprints have dried, cut them out.
6. Use craft glue to stick them to the back of the paper plate as legs.
7. Glue both sides of the pink strip together to create a circle and use the craft glue to stick it to the middle of the plate.
8. From the left over white card, cut out 2 circles for eyes.
9. Paint the middle of the eyes with black poster paint and let them dry.
10. Once dried, use craft glue to stick them to the top of the paper plate.
11. You now have a frog!!

Handprint Flamingo

Materials:

• Pink poster paint
• Googly eye
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Handprint Tiger

Materials:

• Orange poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Googly eye
• White craft glue

Handprint Giraffe

Materials:

• Yellow poster paint
• Orange poster paint
• Googly eye
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Handprint Dinosaurs

Materials:

• Poster paint
• Googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Footprint Chick and Handprint Lion

Materials:

• Yellow poster paint
• Orange poster paint
• Googly eyes
• White craft glue
• Black kokie

Angel Hand and Foot Print

Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• White poster paint
• 2 googly eyes
• Black kokie
• Gold glitter glue

Toucan

Materials:

• Paper plate
• 2 A4 pieces of black cardboard paper
• Black poster paint
• Green poster paint
• Red poster paint
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Googly eye
• Brown cardboard paper
• Red tissue paper
• Yellow tissue paper

Method:

1. Cut the paper plate in half.
2. Paint the front side of the one paper plate half black.
3. Paint the under side of the other paper plate half mostly green, with the tip being red.
4. Whilst drying, trace your hand onto the black card. Your fingers must be together, not spread apart.
5. Cut out.
6. Cut out the body from the other piece of black card. (See picture)
7. From the brown card, cut out 2 feet.
8. Tear up the red and yellow tissue paper and roll into balls.
9. Use the craft glue to stick the googly eye onto the body.
10. Once the plates have dried, use craft glue to stick them onto the body where they are meant to go. (See picture)
11. Use craft glue to stick most of the red tissue paper balls in a row above the feet.
12. Stick the yellow tissue paper balls around the eye and down the side of the beak. 
13. Stick a few red balls onto the edge of the yellow balls.

Bonfire Hand Print

                                                     Age 3 - decided to add in glitter glue
                                      and use red paper instead

Materials:

• Red poster paint
• Yellow poster paint
• White cardboard paper
• Brown poster paint
• Paintbrush
• Hand!!

Method:

1. Paint the hand red on the palm and yellow on the fingers.
2. Blend the two colours in the middle where they meet to create a blended look.
3. Place the child's hand onto the card.
4. Under the hand print, use the brown paint to paint a cross to mimic wood.

Paper Plate Spider Web

2 year old

 

3 year old

Age Range: 2 years to 6 years old
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Brightly coloured poster paint
• Black poster paint
• Hole punch
• String
• Cellotape
• 2 googly eyes (optional)
• White craft glue (if using googly eyes)

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate in the brightly coloured paint and let dry.
2. Once dried, paint a child's hands black with the black poster paint and make a spider (see image)
3. Use the craft glue to stick 2 googly eyes onto the spider (optional)
4. Once that has dried, punch holes on the edge of the paper plate.
5. Thread string through the holes to mimic a spider web.
6. Use the cellotape to secure the ends of the string to the back of the paper plate.

Hand Print Crab

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• Blue paper
• Orange paper
• Red paper
• Scissors
• Pritt glue
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Trace both your child's hands on the red paper and cut them out.
2. Cut out a wavy pattern about a third from the bottom of the orange paper.
3. Stick the orange cut-out onto the bottom of the blue paper with Pritt glue to mimic sand.
4. Glue the red hand cut-outs onto the blue/orange page. Slightly overlap the one hand onto the other so that they are joined.
5. Draw black dots in the thumbs as eyes and draw on a mouth.

Suppliers:

• Black kokie - http://www.coralmoon.co.za/online-store.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=610&category_id=90

Glitter Fish

Age Group: Under 2 years to 5 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Glitter
• Small beads
• White craft glue
• 1 piece of coloured cardboard paper
• Kokies or crayons
• Ice-cream stick
• Scissors
• A little hand!!

Method:

1. Trace your child's hand onto the coloured card and cut it out.
2. Decorate the cut-out with kokies or crayons.
3. Once finished, apply a thin layer of white craft glue all over the decorated side of the fish.
4. Sprinkle the little beads and glitter onto the glue.
5. Use craft glue to stick an ice-cream stick onto the back of the fish.

Autumn Tree

3 year old

2 year old

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Wax crayons
• Watercolour paints

Method:

1. Trace around your child's hand with a wax crayon.
2. On each fingertip, draw the outline of a basic leaf shape in all different colours.
3. Let your child paint to their heart's desire with the watercolour paints.

Paper Plate Farm Animals

This was a huge hit with my 3 year old Serbian boy I teach twice a week when we were doing our farm animal theme. 


Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 7 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Pink paint
• White paint
• Black paint
• Small piece of white cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik

Method:

1. Mix some white paint with the pink paint to make a light pink.
2. Paint the paper plate as well as the small piece of cardboard paper with this light pink.
3. Let to dry.
4. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
5. Once the small piece of cardboard paper has dried, cut out 2 pig ears.
6. Stick them onto the dry paper plate with craft glue.
7. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
8. Use the original pink paint (which should be much darker) to paint in an oval nose and mouth on the pig.
9. Once that is dry, paint two circles on the nose for the nostrils.
10. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together. 

 Materials:

• Paper plate
• White paint
• Black paint
• A4 piece of white cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik

Method:

1. Paint 3 cow patterned "spots" onto the edge of the paper plates with black paint.
2. Use the black paint to paint an oval in the middle of the paper plate as a nose and paint on a mouth.
3. Cut out 2 cow ears and 2 cow horns from the A4 cardboard.
4. Paint the ears black and let dry.
5. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
6. Stick the ears onto the side of the now dry paper plate with craft glue.
7. Stick the horns on the top of the paper plate.
8. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
9. Once that is dry, paint two circles on the nose for the nostrils.
10. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together. 

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Red paint
• Orange felt
• A4 piece of red cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate red. 
2. Leave to dry.
3. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
4. Trace the child's hand onto the red cardboard paper and cut it out.
5. Stick the hand cut-out onto the dry paper plate with craft glue.
6. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
7. Cut out a triangular beak shape from the orange felt and glue onto the paper plate with craft glue
8. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together. 

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Pink paint
• Black paint
• A4 piece of white cardboard paper
• Green cardboard paper
• Ice-cream stick
• White craft glue
• 2 googly eyes
• Scissors
• Bostik
• Cotton wool balls

Method:

1. Paint the A4 piece of cardboard paper black.
2. Whilst the paper is drying, glue cotton wool balls onto the paper plate. Make sure that there are no gaps.
3. Whilst drying, cut out zig-zag shaped grass from green cardboard paper.
4. Once the A4 of cardboard paper has dried, cut out 2 sheep ears and a triangular shaped head.
5. Stick them on top of the cotton wool balls with white craft glue.
6. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes to the now black paper.
7. Use the pink paint to paint the tip of the sheep's face into a nose. 
8. Once that is dry, paint two black circles on the nose for the nostrils.
9. Use Bostik to glue the ice-cream stick to the back of the paper plate and the back of the grass pattern to join the two together.

 

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium


Materials:

• Paper plate
• Googly eyes
• Yellow paint
• Orange paint
• Yellow cardboard paper
• White graft glue
• Scissors 

Method:

1. Paint the paper plate yellow and leave to dry.
2. Whilst drying, trace your child's hands onto the yellow cardboard to make the chick's wings and cut them out.
3. Once the plate has dried, use orange paint to paint on a beak.
4. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes and to stick the hand prints onto the front of either side of the chick.