Posted by Merryn | Posted in Bee , Fingerprint Art , Insect crafts | Posted on 11-11-2011 | 18,002 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 🙁
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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 😀
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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 🙂