We watch them grow. And they grow so, so fast. We love sharing meaningful art and craft ideas and this handprint tree craft is a perfect example.
It’s such a simple craft to make with your kids, and if you do one every year or even every few months, you will have the most wonderful collection of handprint art showing how the little hands grow.
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If you want to make this handprint craft even more special, use the daily newspaper to make it, capturing an event of the day.
You can modify this one to fit different seasons of the year as well.
How to Make the Handprint Tree Craft
What you need:
- pencil
- scissors
- glue
- newspaper, old utility bills or old damaged books
- cardstock (white and black)
- craft paints
- paintbrush
- sponge brush
- black marker
Step by Step Tutorial
Prepare a sheet of white paper. You can use regular print paper for this. Cardstock is fine as well.
This is where the tree’s canopy will be made.
Start by painting the sheet of paper green.
There are many ways your kids can go about adding something extra to the tree, be it realistic or abstract. You can make an apple tree, full of red and yellow apples.
A round sponge brush is perfect for the job.
If your kids prefer abstract art, have them add more colors.
Let them da away! They can also use their fingers to make this project even more personal.
Once they are happy with how their work of art look, set it aside for the paint to dry.
Once the paint has dried, cut out an oval or a circle shape.
Glue this tree top to the top of the black cardstock sheet (you can use any other color but we feel black gives a great contrast).
Grab a piece of newspaper and have kids trace one hand onto it with a pencil.
Trace or have them trace the pencil line with a black marker.
Cut out the hand shape to create the trunk of our tree.
Gue the newspaper hand shape to the bottom of the tree top.
Step back and admire the colorful handprint tree!
A perfect craft to make every year to watch the little hands grow.
A fun way for making recycled art as well.
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