DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Sunshine Handprint Craft
This is a fun and simple handprint craft that makes a great rainy day
project during the summer (come out Mr. Sun!!) You can sing the Mr.
Sun song or the You Are My Sunshine song
while making the craft. That is what Patricia did with her class
while making this craft for their
bulletin
board.
There are two versions of this craft listed on this page: an all
paper version and a paper plate version.
Substitute fun foam for paper in the all paper version to make a cute
keepsake that will last for years!
Check out the Handprint
Poems on the site if you would like to include one with the craft.
Made by Rylan, age 18 months
Materials:
- dinner plate or margarine lid (must fit on a piece of construction paper)
- pencil,
- yellow and orange construction paper.
- scissors,
- glue or glue stick
- markers
- Optional: wiggly eyes and pom pom nose.
Instructions:
- Use a pencil to trace a dinner plate onto a piece of yellow construction
paper. This will be the inside circle of your sunshine.
- Cut out the circle around the line you traced (this can be done by an
adult prior to craft time if you are working with a group of small
children).
- Trace the child's hand onto yellow construction paper 4 to 8 times and cut
them out.
- The number of handprints you need depends on the size of the plate you
used and the size of your child's hand.
- You should have enough prints to go around the plate without
overlapping them too much.
- Glue the yellow handprints around the circle without overlapping them too
much.
- Trace the child's hand onto orange construction paper the same number of
times as you did with the yellow.
- Glue the orange handprints behind the yellow ones, staggering them so the
orange peeks out between the yellow (that was more complicated to explain
than it is to do *laugh*... just peek at the picture at the top of this page
to see what it looks like).
- Draw a face on the plate using markers using store bought wiggly eyes if
you like.
Materials:
- paper plate (large or small)
- yellow tempra or poster paint
- paintbrush.
- pencil,
- yellow and orange construction paper.
- scissors,
- glue or glue stick.
- markers
- Optional: wiggly eyes
Instructions:
- NOTE: I like making the bottom of the paper plate be the face of the
sun (I like how it looks sticking out a bit), but it's ok if the child wants
to make the inside of the plate be the face -- let them choose which way
they want to do it.
- Paint the side of the plate that is going to be the face of the sun with
yellow tempra or poster paint.
- Set the plate aside to dry and have the child help clean up themselves,
their work area and the paintbrush.
- Trace the child's hand onto yellow construction paper 4 to 8 times and cut
them out.
- The number of handprints you need depends on the size of the plate you
used and the size of your child's hand.
- You should have enough prints to go around the plate without
overlapping them too much.
- Glue the yellow handprints around the circle without overlapping them too
much.
- Trace the child's hand onto orange construction paper the same number of
times as you did with the yellow.
- Glue the orange handprints behind the yellow ones, staggering them so the
orange peeks out between the yellow (that was more complicated to explain
than it is to do *laugh*... just peek at the picture at the top of this page
to see what it looks like).
- Draw a face on the plate using markers using store bought wiggly eyes if
you like.
Printable version of these instructions
