Hand Print Craft: Autumn Tree

I’ve decided that one of my focuses on this blog will be keeping up with the simple craft projects that my daughter enjoys for my future reference and as a resource for others. Tulip and I enjoy nearly everything about our projects. We like flipping through books and magazines for ideas. We love a shopping expedition to the craft store. We like making a mess. We even like cleaning up spills with our small vacuum cleaner. Most of all, we enjoy displaying our projects and sharing them with friends and family.

One type of project that I particularly treasure is anything involving kids’ hand prints. They are both art project and time capsule. I love the idea of repeating a project year after year and eventually displaying a collection.

Here’s the first installment:

Materials:

• 1 brown paper bag
• 3 sheets of construction paper, one each yellow, orange, and red
• child-safe scissors
• glue
• tape

Instructions: Ask child to help as appropriate.

1. Trace child’s hand on one sheet of paper. Stack the sheets and cut.
2. Open and flatten bag before sketching a simple tree shape. Cut out.
3. Color the trunk.
4. Glue hand prints randomly over the appropriate area of the tree.
5. Rip or cut up scraps of construction paper to glue at the base of the tree.
6. Hang up with tape when dry.
   

Tulip’s Tree

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