Students can make baby chick paintings using their fingerprints.
By Rachael Lydick [Rachael is a teacher at Searles Elementary ]
What You Need:
- Yellow tempera paint
- Wash tubs
- Large construction paper
- Glue
What You Do:
Each student can choose a piece of construction paper for the background.
Have students come up one at a time, to gently dip their fingers in the yellow tempera paint.
Each will place a finger on their paper, making one or more fingerprints.
They can clean their fingers in the wash tub.
Once the paint has can then decorate their fingerprints to look like a new spring chick.