Fancy Finger Painting for all ages
Oct 22, 2022My finger painting journey began when my little girl was just one year old. I couldn’t wait for her to start having fun with art supplies and create some ‘baby art’ for family members. We created baby hand print rainbows, flowers, starry nights and kept the little prints as keep sakes and gifts. As she has gotten older our finger-painting has become a little more fancy and many fingerprint art lessons have started to appear in the Art Club. I can assure you that finger-painting is NOT just for toddlers. Creative kids (and me too!) love the sensory texture of paint on their fingers tips. A simple finger tip can be used to create a bunch of balloons, gumball’s and lollies, a vase of flowers or decorate an entire tree, complete with beautiful autumn leaves or blossom. It is also a wonderful activity to preserve your child’s fingerprints, we all know they grow up so fast!
Check out the finger painting lessons that are inside the Art Club right now. Our latest Fingerprint Blossom Vase was designed especially with Mother’s Day in mind.
Keep on scrolling for a step by step guide to my all seasons Fingerprint Tree activity below.
FINGER PRINT TREE ART LESSON
This lesson will encourage your child to learn about nature and the environment, while promoting aesthetic awareness and building important fine motor skills. Explore colour mixing, pattern, shape, and texture with your child as they learn about the autumn season and create their own imaginative collection of trees for each season.
ART SUPPLIES
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Coloured A4 Art Paper
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Oil Pastels or Crayons
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Liquid Paint x 3 Colours
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Paper Towel
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Paper Plate
Step 1. Select two oil pastels for the tree, one dark and one light, I’m using grey and black. Draw a tree on the coloured paper with the lighter oil pastel.
Step 2. Draw wiggly line details with the darker oil pastel over the top. This will create bark texture.
Step 3. Choose a winter, spring, summer or autumn tree to create. Select three harmonious colours of liquid paint to use for the tree leaves. Squirt each paint colour on a paper plate, the size of a 20 cent coin.
Step 4. Starting with the darkest colour, use your finger to dab paint over the bottom branches to create leaves.
Step 5. As you work your way up the tree switch to your medium colour, then your lightest colour to create fingerprint leaves. Look at the way the colours mix on the page. You can also experiment with mixing colours on your paper plate. Leave to dry.
Step 6. Continue on to create a tree for each season; summer, autumn, winter and spring.
You can find this full length paint-along video lesson and over 50+ more inside my Online Art Club for kids. Once you are a member all you have to do is set your Little Artist up with their supplies, choose a project and press play to create along with me. Find all about the Art Club below.
