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Handprint crafts are some of our favourite activities because you enjoy the fun of the craft and create a snapshot in time of your children too - look back over your child's previous artwork and be amazed at how quickly they have grown! This makes handprint crafts a particularly good "gift" idea for parents, grandparents and other special people too.
Children love to paint apple trees and here is a fun, messy way to do it! The only problem with this hand-painting craft is that you have to wait for the green part of the tree to dry before adding the finger-print apples!
This is a lovely craft for younger children, who will enjoy both the hand painting and printing and the sticking on of stickers! You could adapt the craft for spring by using pink "blossom" stickers.
Go wild with some bright autumn colours to create this autumn tree painting, and capture your child's hands in time!
This cute little bumble bee is easy to create with some poster paints and your child's handprint. Date the picture as you will love to look back on it and remember the size of your child's hand in future years!
Encourage your children to let their imagination run riot with this colourful butterfly handprint painting..
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Everybody's fingerprint is unique to them. So, here is a great way to create a piece of art work that is totally unique to you as it features your fingerprint! You don't need many resources to do this one and it's a great way to get really creative.
This fingerprint rainbow is a fun activity for little ones - perfect for St Patrick's Day, or perhaps for a Noah's Ark, weather or general rainbow them
This flag handprint wreath makes an excellent group project for international days or sporting events such as the Olympic Games - and it makes a stunning wall or table decoration too!
Have some fun with this cheeky giraffe handprint painting..
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Construction paper Poster paint in yellow and brown
This hand banner craft makes a good class or family project. Why not make the banner long enough to circle a room so it joins together in a unified circle? Each child can use a different quote and think about its meaning.
These handprint and footprint ghosts are so effective - and, if you remember to date them, a great way of "capturing" a memory of your child. They make great invitations for a Halloween party, too!
These hand and footprint reindeers make lovely momentos. Why noy use them to make a card for Grandparents?
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Here's a cute handprint bunny that the kids can print in a flash! Only one colour to clear up, too.
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This super caterpillar is a fun craft any time. Kids will love painting their hands two colours and making lots of different body segments! We've used the caterpillar to make a number frieze, too.
These little handprint chicks are fun to do and make a great Easter picture or card. They look great and they provide a cute memento too!
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Grab the black and white paint pots and the overalls - and prepare to get messy with this fun handprint cow craft!
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Get messy with our handprint daffodil craft - perfect for St David's Day, Mother's Day or Spring!
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Five handprints combined with some paper shapes (cut out using our template) produce this fantastic, fierce dragon - a fantastic craft for Chinese New Year or a China theme, a fairy tale theme, or even St George's Day or St David's Day.
Handprint paintings are always fun, and this one transforms your child's hand into a goat - perfect for a farmyard theme, or for Chinese New Year in the Year of the Goat!
Quick, easy and fun for little kids, this handprint goldfish nevertheless looks effective on display! Of course you could make a whole school of fish this way for an underwater scene, too.
If your child prints a handprint heart, it will be yours forever! These make a super quick craft activity for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day and a lovely keepsake, too.
Make a record of your child's hands and enjoy some messy handprint painting with this cute hedgehog!
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Here's a fun handprint painting horse that younger children will enjoy. Why not paint a whole herd!
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This handprint kinara makes a quick, fun and messy Kwanzaa craft for kids!.
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Here is a fun way for children to display artwork on the fridge - and it makes a nice little present for Mother's Day, Father's Day or Grandparent's Day too.
Here is a fun and original way to represent a Menorah, as well as record your child's handprints.
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Paper Paint
Cut out a print of a child's hand and let them use their imagination and crafty bits and pieces to decorate them as a monster! A perfect way to capture a moment in time at Halloween.
Handprint this super ox painting for Chinese New Year, a farm theme or perhaps a Nativity theme.
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This ox head handprint is perfect for Chinese New Year of the Ox. We think it even has the look of a Chinese painting about it!
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Write these handprint poems on some handprint artwork or inside a card to make a special gift for someone special.
This handprint rainbow makes a fantastic classroom or large group project and looks dazzling on the wall! Perfect for St Patrick's Day, Noah's Ark, or any rainbow theme - as well as for Rainbows' Promise and Pot of Gold Ceremonies.
Handprint paintings are a fun way to make a great picture, and they have the added benefit of giving you a "memento" of the children, too! This handprint reindeer is very cute. We've given ours a red nose, because of course it is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Here is a cute - and unusual - handprint painting that you can do at Christmas. Make sure you write the date on the back because in a few years you will look back and wonder how your children were ever that small!
Even the youngest children will be able to paint a fantastic Father Christmas with this handprint Santa painting idea! And it is good, messy fun, too.
Here is a quick idea for a St Patrick's Day craft which is bound to be a hit with the kids - and it provides a nice keepsake for the grown-ups, too!
Here's an idea for some messy fun to while away a long winter afternoon!
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Construction paper White paint
Isn't this handprint snowman cute? Kids of all ages will be proud of themselves when they produce a painting as good as this one!
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This spooky little spider does double duty - first as a quick and easy fun craft for kids of all ages, and second as a keepsake for mothers (or grandmothers) to lock away and bring out on future Halloweens!
Even the youngest children can make a very impressive star painting with this handprint technique! And of course gold paint is a real treat to paint with.
This handprint Star of David is very quick and easy - even the youngest children can do it!
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Paper Gold paint
Children will enjoy creating this handprint Stegosaurus - a fun way to get messy and learn about dinosaurs at the same time!
Our handprint stegosaurus!
Even the youngest children will be able to paint a fantastic Father Christmas with this handprint Santa painting idea! And it is good, messy fun, too.
Summer is the strawberry season - yum! If you can't celebrate by getting out to pick some strawberries, why not try making a handprint strawberry!
Here is super handprint craft which children will have lots of fun with - a fierce handprint Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Our Handprint T Rex - very fierce!
Here's a lovely, messy craft for little kids - and the result does look a little like a thistle! How about making a class-full of these, cutting them out and using them to decorate the bottom of the notice-board with a field of thistles?
Handprint crafts are a super way to record your child's age and size forever. This colourful handprint turkey makes a charming Thanksgiving project or gift.
Here's a fun idea for a handprint turkey you can make with the kids for Thanksgiving. This one doesn't involve any paint so it is a relatively mess-free project!
Draw and cut around your child's hand on colourful paper to make this fun handprint turkey - a perfect quick Thanksgiving craft. Perhaps you could send the turkey to family if you won't be able to see them for the holidays?
Decorate the house for the New Year - and capture a picture of your child's hands to keep forever, too! This is a simple craft but one that the kids will enjoy, and it will be fun to bring out next New Year's Eve to compare!
Here is an unusual craft idea which girls will enjoy! it is a Hindu tradition to paint pretty designs onto the hands and feet at festivals and weddings and in some countries it is traditional to paint lovely henna "mehndi" designs on the hands for celebrations such as Eid.
Thumbprint paintings are always messy fun, and these hyacinth thumbprint paintings can be enjoyed by your youngest children with a bit of direction!
This gorgeous lion is a super way to record your child's handprint and have some messy fun at the same time!
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This is an excellent craft for encouraging children to think about all the things they are thankful for! It also works well within the family or classroom.
This multi-coloured handprint banner is perfect for Martin Luther King Day, international events, or any time you are studying different cultures. It makes a good classroom project.
This is a handprint painting idea for slightly older children. Rather than using one colour of paint on your hand and manipulating the stamp to form shapes on the paper, this time Sam painted a design on his hand first. The result wasn't perfect, but it was fun.
Create a beautiful showy peacock with a handprint and two colours of poster paint.
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Encourage kids to remember their New Year's resolutions with this magnet craft - just stick it on the fridge and you'll see it several times a day! This is a fun craft for older kids, who could make one for each member of the family.
This lovely craft idea can be undertaken in one go as a project on the seasons - or in four parts over the year as each season arrives. However you choose to do it, the canvases make an eye-catching display.
Bring a little sunshine into your home with this super easy sun handprint craft for summer! And as it involves some painting, some tracing, some cutting and some sticking, it proves a particularly popular craft for kids!
Celebrate the summer with this gorgeous sunflower handprint painting, which is fun and simple for kids to make as a summer painting project. Imagine a whole "field" of these on display!
Children will be thrilled to use their own artwork to make a height chart to display on the wall - and the sunflower is a usefully tall flower, so perfect for making this height chart!
This is a lovely activity and it works well for a single child, a family or a classroom display. Sam wasn't feeling too loving when we did this, so our example lists some of the things he "likes" rather than "loves"!
Kids will enjoy getting their hands dirty for this tiger handprint painting idea - perfect for Chinese New Year, an Indian theme, or any other time tigers are required! Great for all ages.
Here's an idea for some messy fun to while away a long winter afternoon!
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Here is a handprint craft with a difference, perfect for kids of all ages to make at Halloween!
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