Handprint Art & Crafts For Toddlers

Crafting is one of the important skills that every kid enjoys making. Handprints are one of the easiest crafting activities for toddlers as it is safe for them and it doesn’t require prior skills to make this. Through this activity, you can use your children’s handprints as artwork to keep them as a sweet memory. These activities are non-prep art activities that can be executed at home or at school easily.

These activities are suitable for toddlers, kindergarten, and preschool children to inspire creativity and fun. Crafting and learning art is one of the major skills that every child should acquire at a very young age as it helps to develop gross and fine motor skills in children which is very important for their overall development.

With these activities, small kids can explore the world of art and craft by experimenting with colours, fingerprints, sponges, and paint brushes.

Here are some of the simple yet amazing Handprint craft activities that will help you to find inspiration for your unique masterpiece.

Incredible Imprint Arts For Tiny Tots

Easy Acorn Craft Ideas For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Acorns are so interesting to play with! Now make a handprint acorn with just two simple colours, a tiny piece of paper and your little hand. It’s always happy to play with colours as they can create a happy bliss in your heart. Add happiness to your play with these simple and easy acorn prints

Time To Taste Your Apples!

Image Source/Tutorial: All Kids Network

Make an apple tree grow sooner with your small hands by imprinting them on a piece of paper. Take brown, green and red colours. These reddish apples made by you are extra sweet and healthy. Try out other different trees with fruits with the magic of colours and your fingers. This kind of activity helps children to follow an environment-friendly lifestyle and learn about the parts of plants and trees.

Yellow And Black Handprint Honey Bees

Image Source/Tutorial: Red Ted Art

How would it be if you catch a honeybee in your hands? Oh no! Don’t try that because it may be stingy. Instead, create a cute honeybee with your handprints. Colour your tiny palms with alternative yellow and black paints and stamp your paper on a piece of paper. Fix their Googly eyes and make them fly.

Handprint Pom Pom Butterfly Crafts

Image Source/Tutorial: Crystal & Comp

Butterflies are cute right? Paint your palms with whatever colour of butterfly you want and make an impression on a piece of paper. Paste balls and crystals on it to make the butterfly glow. Now, make the body of the butterfly that is similar to its caterpillar stage. Use pom poms of different shapes for making the body and see how your butterfly looks.

Handprint Little Duck Craft Ideas For Little Ones

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Help your kids learn about ducks, butterflies and other birds with these amazing craft ideas. Your little hands can create these beautiful print crafts. Add some soft feathers to the duck to swim freely. Attach their eyes, beak and legs to make them complete.

Elephant Imprint Handy Crafts For Children

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Domestic Elephants are always friendly to play with and children live riding on an elephant. Don’t be stressed about painting a huge creature. It’s very simple to do with blue paint on your hands. Make an impression of the painted palm on paper and draw the large ears and sharp heel of the elephant and see how it looks. Try it at once!

Lovable Valentine Tree Gift Card

Image Source/Tutorial: Fun Handprint Art

A chance to bestow your beloved ones by gifting them some beautiful crafts and art made by you. This beautiful hand-shaped tree which depicts love can be gifted to your valentine or loved ones to show the amount of love and affection you have. It is a unique idea of a heart tree with different colours which says that your love is constant in all phases of your life.

Handprint Heart Square Craft Ideas

Image Source/Tutorial: Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes

Here we are again with another amazing idea of handprint heart art which can easily be done by kids. It helps the kids to develop a deep interest in art and craft. First, cardstock paper is painted in different colours with the sponge and their handprints papers are pasted on it. Above that, paste a heart and arrange the square in different ways.

Simple And Best Handprint Gift Card

Image Source/Tutorial: Fun Handprint Art

It’s warm to receive some unique love from kids. That too when they try to create something on their own and think of presenting it to their loved ones is truly a blessing. These handprint colourful cards with hearts can be the best gift to be presented to your little kids trying to learn about the World.

Colourful Tree With Handprint

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Make a colourful tree background by colouring a paper in whichever different colours you want. Make an impression of your colorful palm and make a brown bark of the tree.

Image Source/Tutorial: Sweet and Lovely Crafts

The spring has arrived and it is time to welcome it with beautiful dancing peacocks with colours. Create this peacock art with your hands and give bright blue and green colour to the feathers. You will need about four impressions of your hand to get a wider peacock feather. Remember, the wider it is, the more attractive it will be.

The Pirate Handprint Crafts For Fantasy Lovers

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

I am damn sure that kids love fantasy series. Now make your own fantasy craft for the pirates of the Caribbean theme with handprints. Don’t forget to bring out the skulls and white bones at the top of the pirate and paint the pirate eye patch. This can be a gift card to your parents or friend with a warm note of smile and happiness.

Make Your Handprint Ships To Sail During Weekends

Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Activities Blog

It is very relaxing to spend your weekends at a cool beach. We love to sail on a boat and see the fishes closer to our eyes. Have you ever dreamed of creating your own ship? It’s now time to create one. Make an impression of your hands like a ship and fix the flags on it. On a sunny warm evening, do not forget to draw the sun overseeing with a cloud beside it.

Cute Handprint Photo Frame Ideas For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: Mama Papa Bubba

Simple and elegant it is! Frame your handprint craft and hang it on the wall. Each time you see it, you get a sort of smile and grin. Make this beautiful frame by tracing your hands and placing different designs of stripes under it and cutting it into the required shape. Frame it using a white frame so that it looks simple and good.

White Kissing Swan Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: Kissed By A Frog

Why not try a different form of gifting your parents instead of gifting them with the same cards and flowers to express your love towards them? This kissing swan is one of the best crafts. You can print even your parents’ hands and gift them with this which is an amazing idea. Go ahead and start creating this wonderful kissing swan.

Multi-coloured Handprint Turkey Crafts

Image Source/Tutorial: Meaningful Mama

These handprint turkeys are eye candy to everyone. They are so colourful and easy to make and they do not need any extra materials other than your hands and paint. Paint your hands in different colours to indicate different parts of the turkey and then print them on a piece of paper to get this summer craft done right

Antipodal Handprint Crafts For Artistic Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: Suzy Homeschooler

This is a unique craft idea that is slightly different from the other ideas. Print your hands in such a way that they are antipodal to each other, that is they are in the opposite directions and colour the part of it below with brown paint.

Make it in your own hands! Yeah.! There lies the secret of the beauty of these handprint crafts. Spend your weekends and warm evenings with paints and make your life colourful. Comment below to share your colours and experience.

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