5 Fingerprint Art Activities for Kids

One art supply you know you have on hand is your fingers. With a washable stamp pad, and a pen, markers, or crayons, these fingerprint art activities can give you countless hours of quick inexpensive, artsy fun.

Giving kids an art prompt to help get those creative juices flowing is always a fun way to kick off the day. These quick and easy ideas can be set up the night before so that kids have a surprise, or brought out when you need a moment. Don’t underestimate them because they only use a few simple supplies – kids of all ages, and adults too, will love the results.

And when you’re looking for a low mess art idea, the ink washes away quickly with a trip to the sink.

Fingerprint Biome

Take your fingers to the jungle, or deep underwater by creating an environment perfect for fingerprint animals.

Have kids decide what environment they want to create – the desert, the ocean, the jungle, a farm, a forest, a pond. Kids can use crayons, colored pencils, watercolors, or anything you have on hand in order to create the backdrop.

Then have kids make at least 5-10 finger prints around the scene. Use pens and markers to turn the fingerprints into animals. Has the jungle been taken over by lemurs? Did they stumble upon a sheep farm? Or is every single animal different?

Different Faces

Practice drawing expressions and emotions with this fun exercise.

Fill up the piece of paper with fingerprints, making sure there is space between them.

Use a pen or a marker to see how many expressions you can make across the paper. To take it a step further, add arms and legs to turn them into little emotion creatures.

Hide the Bug

Embrace the creepy crawly with your fingers.

Insects are great at hiding from humans, so let kids have fun creating the perfect insect landscape. Trees, rocks, dirt, a forest, or create a jungle for extra large beetles.

Once the landscape is done, start hiding your insects. Where will they want to hide to not get squished? Or are they at a picnic and about to feast on watermelon?

A Garden of Possibilities

Turn fingerprints into a garden with this activity.

Turn each of their print into a flower by drawing petals around the print, and adding leaves, and a stem. Use different colors for your garden, or if you only have one color stamp pad, use markers, crayons, or colored pencils for different colored petals.

Try making hydrangea or hollyhock with little finger tip prints.

Flowers can be separate on the page, or closer together and then kids can color their garden, adding a few fingerprint butterflies or birds, and even a fingerprint sun.

Alien Invasion

Get ready for an invasion.

Start on a paper plate and let kids design the alien planet. Will there be craters? Volcanoes? Or do the aliens live on a gas giant?

Then kids can start adding aliens with eye stalks, funny expressions, even alien pets. They can consider where the aliens live, if they have pets, and if there are alien families.

Don’t forget the alien spaceship!

What will you create using your fingers? Leave a comment below.

Looking for more inspiration, take a look at Fingerprint Characters by Bobbie Nuytten.

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