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I have a soft spot for artwork that features kids’ handprints. I really can’t explain it. Is it the personal and unique touch a handprint brings? Maybe! All I know is that the outcome of the art really doesn’t matter. I’ll ooh and aah equally over a handprint butterfly and a handprint pumpkin stem. My colleagues think I’m weird, strangers think I’m strange, and my faithful friends simply accept me as I am.
I’d love to hear about the handprint art projects your students and you make! Smiles, |
I like to do the handprint art projects also. One year we did the calendar for a Christmas gift. I would paint hands during self-selected activity time. One day I called one of my boys and he came over to me with his hands out ready to be painted! I had called him because I wanted to talk to him!
I have made trees with the children’s hands. Then later I used construction paper to make leaves.
well i once made a giraffe. used a foot outline for the face and the outline of the arm for the neck and body. cut out ears and stuff. kiddos LOVED it. more recently made animals out of hand print shapes…. i love it too. it makes the art more personal for me…so u r definately not strange =)
I too love handprint and foot print art and we do it about once a month.
I start the year off with just the kid’s handprints on paper and add the meaning of their name. The Parent’s love it. Then we go apple tree’s with thumbprint apples, ghost footprints and those turkey handprints. And of course Santa for Christmas.
I love that raccoon handprint puppet! I think I might make that one of my back to school projects next year! Along with all of my other Chester activities.
There is of course our holiday handprint wreath above our faux fireplace the handprint sushine shining over the traditional 6 ft. tree in book area next to our benches.
I too do many projects with handprints and footprints. I try to do at least one thing every
month. I think the parents like to keep these, I
know I would.
My kids make reindeer: footprint for the face, hands for antlers.
I teach 3K. I make a scapbook full of handprints, footprints and fingerprints to give the parents at the end of the year. Usually save about 2 a month for the scrapbook. This month, October, I am even making footprint witches for the girls and footprint Frankensteins for the boys:)
I do love to paint feet and hands!!!
I confess I am in the same boat as all of you! In September we make a handprint tree with fingerprint apples in it. In October we make bat wings with our handprints. In November our Thanksgiving Placemats we make a pilgrim a turkey and a native american all by painting our hands differently. we also use cutouts of our hands – I trace their hands onto card stock and put their names on the back then when we need them I can cut them out ahead of time in the color we need ahead of time.
I have the kids make handprint certificates as a keepsake for Grandparents Day at the beginning of the school year. We’ve done ghost footprints, handprint turkeys, handprint antlers for reindeer, and handprint bunny ears for Easter/Spring. We also make hand pumpkins (where you paint the outside of the fingers in a fist) with thumbprint stems. I’m always on the lookout for ideas that I can alter and use the kids hands in the projects. Most of them LOVE to have their hands painted…and like another reader, after doing a couple projects having painted the children’s hands, when I call them individually they often come with their hand out-stretched to be painted!