DLTK's Bible Crafts for Kids
Thumbody Loves You... God That's Who!
Kim sent in a craft suggestion and somewhere along the line, it turned into this *grin*...
This is a wonderful, yet simple craft for young children.
Materials:
- paper
- couple colours of tempra or finger paint (we
used 2, but you could use more... just remember, you only have 2
thumbs so if you use more, you'll have to wash off in between colors)
- black marker
Instructions:
- Make thumbprints on the paper. You can see in the photo that we made
- a thumbprint caterpillar with alternating colors,
- a thumbprint flower (4 prints for the petals and 2 prints for the leaves),
- a thumbprint butterfly (4 prints of the same color),
- a thumbprint sun (a whole bunch of prints in a circle),
- a thumbprint bush (prints in a bunch) and
- thumbprint grass (prints in a row)
- Kitty adds: for less experienced crafters,
make small pencil marks on the paper to help guide them as to where
they should be putting their thumbprints -- this helps with their
hand/eye coordination, direction following skills and gets the
caterpillars to look like caterpillars!
- Let dry
- Take your black marker and draw legs a face on
the caterpillar, a stem and center on the flower, and a body and
antenna on the butterfly.
- At the top of the picture, write "Thumbody
loves you, God that's who!" (or "us" or "me"... Tasha insisted we had
to write us, even though it didn't rhyme *grin*)
Printable version of these instructions