January 30, 2011
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Fingerprint Animals
Every other Friday is payday at our house. And on payday, the kids have to have something ready to send out to their penpals. So we try to come up with interesting things to make/do for them… a postcard or craft or something. Last paycheck it was cartouches (although now I wish I’d sent along the code-key for the other kids to decipher their names from the heiroglyphics). This week? Fingerprint animals.
Which sounds really silly and easy, but we had a BALL for about an hour or so, just making a TON of these things. I’d checked out an Usbourne animal project book from the library, 
and the little critters just charmed the heck out of me!We cut out colored paper squares to write in the middle on, but did our fingerprint critters as a border all the way around the outside of the squares.
I did up a whole sheet of all of the animals, so that after we turned the library book back in, we’d have the ‘templates’ in case we wanted to do this again. I added a few of my own, too… their cat was just fugly, so I made my own (lower left corner), and their squirrel was a UFO (Unidentified Furry Object) so I re-vamped it (other lower corner). You can click the image to enlarge.
Parents, beware. Even with kid-friendly stamp inkpads, the colors will stain the kids’ fingers for a day or so. Not that that’s a BAD thing… look at the colorful wave they’ll have! ((grins!))
Just another fun idea for a day with the kiddos…
