Living and Loving – September 2019

86 | SEPTEMBER 2019 | L&L

Spring is in the air, so get your kids

creating fun and colourful crafts.

Fingerprint blossom tree
This craft is perfect for little hands to practise those fine-
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YOU WILL NEED
White paper
Coloured paper
Pencil
Scissors
Prestik
Craft paint in green, blue, and pink
Paintbrushes
Glue stick

METHOD
1 Place your little one’s
hand on a piece of paper
and trace around it.
2 Cut it out to make a template and
stick it to the white paper with
a few small pieces of Prestik.
3 Dip the paint brush into the green

paint and lightly paint your

little one’s fingers. Let her

press down to make a

finger print. Repeat until

you have enough green.

4 Make sure the fingerprints

are close together at the

edge of the template.

5 Next, make pink fingerprints

for the blossoms around the

hand area of the tree.

6 Use the blue paint to

make the sky.

7 Allow the paint to dry

completely before carefully

removing the hand template.

8 Glue to a larger piece of

cardboard to make it sturdy.