Craft Up: Make Beautiful Cardinals With Little Handprints!

A fun, hands-on activity for your little one!

Age Range – 2 – 3 years, 3 – 4 years

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Primary Skills – Sensorial skills, creativity

Materials:

• Blue-coloured paper
• Paints
• Cotton pieces
• Scissors
• Glue

Instructions:

• Take the blue-coloured paper, and draw a branch near its bottom side (don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be perfect!)
• Help your child colour it in with brown paint. Let it dry.
• Now, let’s make the cardinal! Paint your child’s palm and fingers in red paint, and press it (horizontally) quickly and firmly on the blue paper. Make sure that the handprint is a little above the painted branch (see image for reference). Let dry.
• Now, let’s draw a beak, eyes, and legs. Help your child draw a beak and legs with orange paint, and eyes with black paint (see image for reference). Let it dry.
• Time to make some snow! Take some cotton pieces, and help your child paste bits of it as snow on the branch.
• Then, with some white paint, let your child finger-paint dots of snow on the blue paper. Let dry completely.

The cardinal painting is ready!