Record your family tree with a little help from the smaller hands in your house with this sweet project. If you don’t have brown cardstock, this can also be done with brown craft paint painted on the hand and arm and pressed right onto the white paper!
Things you’ll need:
Brown cardstock 8 1/2 x 11
White Cardstock 11 x 17
Scissors
Green acrylic paint or ink pads (several shades would be best)
Black marker
Glue stick or spray glue
Pencil
Things to do:
1. Track your child’s hand and arm onto the brown cardstock and cut out carefully.
2. Glue the tree” onto the white cardstock, centering the arm or trunk” on the bottom edge.
3. Write the names of your family members onto the fingers or “limbs” of the tree. If you need more than five fingers, cut a second hand from the paper and add it to create a larger tree”.
4. Paint leaves around the tree using fingerprints dipped in ink or paint.
