Footprint Butterfly

Materials: Paint, white paper, colored construction paper, black marker, glue stick
Activity: Paint your child's feet and then print each foot on the opposite side of the paper leaving space for the "body" of the butterfly. Create the body of the butterfly out of colored construction paper and glue between the 2 wings. Add details using your black marker. Older children could decorate the body of the butterfly or add patterns to the wings.

Darling Ducks

Thumbprint Ducks

Materials: Yellow paint, orange and black marker or crayon, white paper

Activity: Use your thumbprint and your child's to make the body of the duck. Once dry use the orange and black markers to add details to your ducks as shown in the picture.











Paper Plate Duck

Materials: paper plate, yellow paint, orange and yellow construction paper, glue, wiggle eye

Activity: Paint the paper plate yellow. Once dry fold in half. Out of the yellow and orange construction paper make head, beak and feet of duck and glue to paper plate (which should be folded in half as shown). Glue wiggle eye on to complete.

Foot Paiting and The Shape of Me!!

The Shape Of Me!

materials: brown bag or construction paper, markers or crayons, photo of your child, magazines to cut out things your child likes

activity: Cut out a "person" shape from your brown bag or construction paper (sorry, I do not have a pattern for this one because I just drew it, but you could probably do a google search for one). Have your child color the cut out. Once they are done have them go through the magazines to find things they like (of course for younger children you will need to help with this step). Have them glue the things they like onto their body shape.









Foot painting

materials: brown bag or large piece of paper (you could use the back of wrapping paper also- the white side), paint

activity: What I did was cut the paper bag so it was like one long strip (so basically i cut off the bottom and cut it down the side). Then I put it in the bottom of our bathtub. I put a paper plate with 2 colors of paint on each into the tub. I had my son step one foot in each color and then walk on the paper. As you can see from the photo I ended up cutting off about 1 side of the bag, because my son was not too thrilled with this activity. I just think he wasn't in the mood for it and wanted to take a bath more than anything. Afterwards I just ran the bath and he was clean. It's the easiest way to do this! :)

Penguin Foot Print

Sorry this is so late, but I finally got a chance to hunt this guy down, photograph him and upload him. :) This is our footprint penguin from the polar bear and penguin theme. As you can see it's his footprint upside down, and a white oval cut out of the scrap paper as his belly. On the belly I wrote the poem, which I listed in the lesson plan for the theme. He turned out cute, so I thought I'd share.

Handprint snowflake

Materials: Dark paper, white paint, paint brush

Directions: Paint your child's hand white. Place their hand down on the paper (try to have them spread their fingers- a little harder with younger kids). Then continue to do the same overlapping the palm.