Hand and Footprint Painting, Boat!

Sailing Boat 


We made this after spending a day at the seaside, where we had been talking about all the boats we could see.  So this week is all about boats and the sea! This is how we made a lovely hand and foot print picture of a boat.

What you need:
White paper or card
Paints (we made a green and brown boat, but you can choose whatever colours you need)
Blue textured paper (we used to 2 different blue tissue paper and some corrigated paper)
Blue glitter glue
coloured pipe cleaner

What we did:


First of all using the brown paint, we painted her foot with a brush and added it sideways to the paper (or card) and then clean up the mess!
Next, we painted her hands with the green paint using a brush, and added two hand prints just above the footprint.

Once that has dried you can then go about decorating your boat.  

We choose to add a pipe cleaner as the mast, this is done by making to small holes at the top and bottom of the middle of the hand print,  tie a small knot in one end of the pipe cleaner, thread through the holes and tie a small knot in the other end.

We also added blue textured paper and blue glitter to look like the sea.  To do this, we cut out wave shapes in the paper and stuck to the bottom of the paper (or card) and cover the bottom half of the footprint.  

This is a picture of our finished boat picture...

Apologies, my computer skills are not great, so have no idea how to turn the picture round!

Hand and Footprint Painting, Frog!

Well to start my new section on hand/foot print art, Ive decided to do frogs.  Hand and foot (as well as finger/toes/etc) print art is a really good way to make pictures or cards to give as presents.  They are great to do at any age or stage of development, and for the most part are very easy to do.

What you need:

Green paint (although we used blue and yellow to make green, as this adds more fun to the make.

Green tissue paper

Red and green glitter glue

Googlie eyes

What to do:

First of all we needed to mix the paint (this step is not needed if you are using green paint) we added blue and yellow paint to a plate and allowed her to mix it, to make green.

While she was entertained with mixing the paint, we made a lily pad 
shape with the tissue paper, we then stuck this to the paper (or card if making a card).

Then we painted her foot with a brush (I find this method less messy than just letting her put her foot in the paint!) and added her foot print sideways across the paper (or card if making a card), partly on top of the tissue paper lily pad.  Then we painted her hands and added these upside down on top of the footprint to make the eyes, and allowed the paint to dry.

Once dry we added glitter glue around the lily pad, and a red glitter glue smile, as well as two googlie eyes.