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Thumbprint Pictures
These cards are perfect for party invitations or thank-you cards—or just write spooky jokes or ghost stories inside and send them to friends and family.
MATERIALS
- Finger paint in black, white, purple, green, and orange
- Paper plate
- Colored cards or construction paper
- Thin black pen
- Paint brush
- Put dollops of paint onto a paper plate. Have kids dip their thumb or finger into it and then press onto the card.
• For a spider, make a black horizontal thumbprint.
• For a bat, make a black vertical thumbprint.
• For pumpkins, either make three orange vertical thumbprints for a large one or one orange horizontal or vertical ones for the small ones.
• For a witch, make a green vertical thumbprint.
• For Dracula, make a purple vertical thumbprint.
• For a cat, make a black horizontal thumbprint for the body and a black fingerprint for the head. - After the paint has dried completely, use a black pen to add lines, legs, ears or other markings to complete the shapes.
- Dip the blunt end of a paintbrush into white paint and press onto the shapes to make the eyes. After the paint dries, add the pupils in the middle of the eyes.
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Emma Hardy is the author of Green Crafts for Children (CICO Books).
