Handprint Calendar (July - December

Here is the second half of the handprint calendar pages.

July - Fish

orange paint on hand, directly on blue paper (make sure thumb is out to look like a fin)

add a googly eye

add strips of green crepe paper for seaweed

August - Sun

paint hand yellow and place directly on blue paper several times in a circle

add sunglasses (we put aluminum foil behind the star shape for lenses)

September- Apples

paint palm of hand red and stamp multiple times on white paper

add a brown fingerprint stem, and a green leaf

cut out tree branch shape from brown paper

add green fingerprint leaves

cut out apples and place on tree

October - Pumpkins

paint palm of hand orange and stamp multiple times on white paper

add green fingerprint stems

cut out brown fence (like paper dolls, fold and make only a few cuts)

add pumpkins how you like them

you can also draw a yellow moon with chalk

November - Turkey

paint palm and thumb brown

paint fingers four different colors

add thumbprint waddle

add googly eye

let child cut out a beak and feet

leaves here were made on white paper using straw painting, then punched with a leaf punch

December- Santa

paint top of hand and thumb red

paint a thin strip of white

paint rest of palm peach

paint fingers white for beard

add pom pom to end of hat

paint hand green and stamp several times on layers to create tree

decorate tree

make fireplace out of paper and put santa inside

I hope that you enjoyed looking at these pages and got some ideas to use with your kids.