Today my little guy and I read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I decided we needed to try to make our own caterpillar using fingerprints.
I first made a line in pencil to help us know where to place my son's thumbprints. Then I helped him use his fingerprints to paint the caterpillar.
I love how cute our caterpillar turned out, don't you?
We use a combination of green paint with a little yellow mixed in for the body and red paint for the head. My son used his thumb for that. Then he used his pinky dipped in brown for the 6 legs and in yellow for the eyes. The back end of a paintbrush or a pencil works well for the mouth, centers of the eyes, the "hair", and the antennae.
When we were finished with our caterpillar things quickly took a different direction. Hand painting was apparently more fun than finger painting. :)
Here are my son's creations. Notice his abstract caterpillar next to our first caterpillar? He had a lot of fun today. He has been carrying our stuffed "patterpillar" around all day.
If you are interested in caterpillars and butterflies you might like to check out this post from 2 years ago.
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