Posted by Merryn | Posted in Bee, Fingerprint Art, Insect crafts | Posted on 11-11-2011 | 16,589 views
Let’s make a honeycomb using bubble wrap today 😀

Honeycomb

Paint a piece of bubble wrap

Place the painted surface down on a piece of paper

Paint your thumb and stamp all over as the bees

Paint the wings and draw lines on the bees.

Now comes the fun part. Mix some paint with PVA glue.

Drip the mixture onto the honeycomb

Hold the paper up and see the paint mixture flow creating honey in the honeycomb 😀
Optional : I cut some ovals out of yellow foam and get the kids to paste them onto the honeycomb. Paste plastic wings too.

We ate some lala (a type of shellfish) the other day and instead of disposing the shells, we made butterflies out of them 😀

Click here for the full entry of our Lala Butterfly artwork 🙂
Let’s do handprinting again 🙂 Remember the Octopus we did? Since we are in the mood for octopus, let’s make a handprint Octopus 🙂

Handprint Octopus

Paint four fingers and your palm. Stamp on a piece of paper. Paint again and stamp again so that your octopus has 8 tentacles.

Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes.

Use a black marker to draw the eye balls and mouth and the octopus is done 🙂
We are making a giant Handprint Christmas tree today. Well, you determine how GIANT you want it to be 😛

Giant Handprint Christmas Tree

Get the kids to paint their palm green or yellow

How GIANT the Christmas tree will depend on how BIG your paper is.
Lightly draw a large triangle on the paper and get the kids to stamp their painted palm within the triangle area.
Repeat until the whole area is stamped.

Paint your palm yellow and stamp on the top of the Christmas tree as the star.

Let it dry

Once dried, paint your thumb and decorate.
You may also use sponge and rollers. Just have fun and decorate! 😀
Let’s make a palm tree today 🙂

Footprint Palm Tree

Paint your foot green. It’ll be a little ticklish 😀

Print your painted foot onto a drawing paper. Paint and print. Repeat until you have the complete circle of leaves

Paint your pointer brown

Print all the way down

There, your palm tree is done. Can you smell the sea-breeze? Can you hear the waves? 😛
We did a very interesting art piece today 🙂

Handprint Santa Claus

First paint your palm white

Stamp the painted palm onto a darker coloured paper

Paint your thumb red

Stamp the painted thumb as Santa’s nose

Paint your thumb pink

And stamp as the Santa’s cheeks 😀

Paint your thumb white and stamp as the eyes

Cut the Santa’s hat out of red felt. We use red foam as I happened to run out of felt! Improvise! 😀
Paste on some cotton too

Paste a cotton ball at the end of the hat

Paint your pointer black and stamp as Santa’s eyeball and you are done 😀

Handprint Santa – featuring cute kiddos Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House
It’s time to get ticklish again 😀 Blurp, blurp.. FISH here we come 😛

Footprint Fish

Paint your feet red or any colour of your choice and stamp onto a drawing block

Paint your pointer white and stamp as the eyes. Paint some fins and the fish is done 🙂
Do you know we can make a cute octopus out of toilet paper roll? Let’s make one today 🙂

Toilet Paper Roll Octopus

Paint a toilet paper roll with colour of your choice

Let dry and cut strips mid way through the tube

Use a marker and roll the strips to curl it

Curled up octopus 😀

Paint your pointer white

Stamp your fingers as the eyes

Paint the black eye.

Get a hole punch and punch out tiny circles out of yellow foam

Paste the tiny foam circles onto the octopus

The octopus is done 😀

I love sheeps. Let’s make a sheep today 🙂

Paper Plate Cotton Sheep

Paint a paper plate grey

Cut the sides and paste

Paint your thumb white

Dot as the eyes and paint the nose

Cut a pair of ears from white and pink paper

The face is done

Paste cotton balls on an empty paper plate

Paste the face to the body

Your paper plate cotton sheep is done 😀
Toilet paper roll is so much fun. I don’t dispose them. I keep them and transformed them into something cute. Today, we are going to transform a TP Roll into a penguin 😀

Toilet Paper Roll Penguin

Paint the toilet paper roll black

Cut a semi-oval from a white piece of paper and paste on the TP Roll

Cut a pair of flippers from black sugar paper and paste

Paint your fingertip white and stamp it on the TP Roll as the eyes

Paste a pair of feet and draw the black of the eye. The penguin is done 😀
Babies are always so cute. Let’s do a baby chicken – a footprint chick today 😀

Footprint Chick

Paint your foot yellow

Stamp your painted footprint onto a drawing block

Paint 3 fingers and stamp onto the footprint as the wing

Add details and an extra HUGE googly eyes for the maximum cuteness effect 😀 You might want to paint the chick's feet orange instead of black. I regretted painting it black 🙁
Painting is just so much fun! We are very happy today so let’s make a happy footprint penguin 🙂

Footprint Penguin

Paint your foot white, then outline with black

It should be something like this

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of paper

Paint your thumb black and stamp on both sides of the penguin

Use a hole punch to punch out small circles out of black craft foam.
Dab some glue on it.

Paste as the eyes. Cut a triangle out of felt and paste as the beak.

Happy feet is done 😀
Our crafts are going green so don’t throw your egg carton away. Let’s make a cool cat today 🙂

Egg carton cat

Cut the egg carton individually as shown in the picture above.

Glue them together and paint.

Let dry

Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes

Cut two triangles from felt and paste as the ears

Decorate the cat as you wish

The egg carton cat is ready. Meow 😀
Today, we are going to make a lobster out of our hand and footprint 😀

Hand and Footprint Lobster

Paint your foot red

Print your painted foot on a piece of paper

Paint your palm red

Print both of your palms as shown in the picture

Use a brush to draw a line to connect the palm to the feet

Paint your fingertip black and stamp as the eyes

Your hand and footprint lobster is done 😀
Buzz.. Buzz.. Let’s make a bee out of a toilet paper roll today 🙂

Toilet Paper Roll Bee

Paint the toilet paper roll yellow

Let it dry

Cut three strips out of black sugar paper

Paste the strips onto the toilet paper roll

Paint your pointer white

Stamp your fingerprint on the toilet roll as the eyes

Cut a pair of wings out of a white paper and bend a white pipe cleaner.
Paste onto the toilet paper roll and use marker to draw the necessary
People told me ladybug is for good luck and I’ve been believing in that ever since. I can never have enough of ladybugs in my art or crafts. Thanx to Handprint and Footprint Arts, let’s do a footprint ladybug today 🙂

Footprint Ladybug

Paint your heel black

Paint the remaining 3/4 of your foot red

Nice 🙂

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of paper

Paint your fingertip black. Dot the bug.

Paint your fingertip white and dot two eyes.

Use a thin paint brush and paint the eyes and legs and you are done 🙂
It’s been sometime since we last did a footprint art. Today, inspired by Handprint and Footprint Arts, let’s do a footprint bee 🙂

Footprint Bee

Paint your foot yellow. Unlike when he was younger, my boy finds it rather ticklish these days 😀

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of paper.

Help your little one paint three black lines across the footprint.

Paint your finger tip white.

Print your fingertip on the bee as the eyes.

The almost completed footprint bee.

Help the little one paint the eye balls, wings and all and the bee is done 😀
Let’s do a handprint giraffe today.

Handprint Giraffe

Paint your palm yellow and print on a piece of paper.

Dot all over with brown paint.

Use a brush and paint the tail.

Use the brush to paint the mane. Use marker to draw the eye and mouth and your giraffe is done 🙂