Kids Handprint Craft – A is for Apple Tree!

Blue, Green, and Brown construction paper
Washable Red Paint
Scissors
Tape or Glue
A pencil, pen, or marker (for tracing & embellishing)

Directions:
To start, trace each child’s hands (using both hands with lower numbers of children makes your tree look fuller) onto green construction paper (very tricky to do with chubby 5-month old hands!), then cut them all out.  
For the big boys (both 3), I placed their cut out green handprints onto a plate and showed them how to dip one finger in the red paint and “make apples” on their handprints. For the most part, this worked fine–we just have high apple concentration in certain areas instead of well dispersed apples! 🙂
With the littler ones (17 month old twins and a 5 month old), I dipped & placed their fingers for them.

Then, once the fingerprints apples are dry, place them onto the tree trunk.  Add a few embellishments–children’s names & ages, extra apples, a little saying, or anything else cute & apple related.  We’re working on the alphabet with the big boys, so we went with “A is for Apple Tree”.

Then, hang up your kids’ adorable hands & fingerprints so everyone can enjoy their apple tree!

For more handprint crafts, you may enjoy these posts:

• Hand & footprint bats
• Ghost Footprints
• Halloween Handprint Crafts