My dad’s birthday was earlier this week. The boys wanted to make him something and we came up with paper weights. We took some smooth landscaping stones and painted them with acrylic paint. But what to put on them? I suggested decopaging some pictures to the rocks but neither of them were thrilled about that. What to do…..then I remembered we had a couple of Ed Emberley’s Thumbprint and Fingerprint books.
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The boys loved this idea. If you’ve never seen these books they are just adorable! Just using your fingerprints you can make any number of fun things! Animals, people, vehicles, flowers, trees, trains, catarpilars, flowers, the possibilities are endless. We have both the fingerprint drawing book and an older thumbprint book. These are fun books and really spark your imagination. Each book gives step by step instructions with a picture for each step. These are really fun!
Each page has directions for several different items. There are many different pictures you can make.
Both boys loved doing this and I know we are going to be doing more in the future. Kaden who just loves Halloween is especially excited to make some of the Halloween themed prints and I have a few ideas for some future gifts.
Here are the finished paper weights
This is Justin’s. He made his completely by himself.
The orange man is pop pop, a yellow bird next to it, a pollywog and a fish.
Kaden’s paper weight. I helped him with the bird at the top and the fish at the bottom but he finished the cowboy on his own while I was helping Justin pick paint.
We used acrylic paints for the fingerprints and a regular black sharpie marker for the drawing parts. When we were done I sealed them with modge podge.
They wrote on the back of them as well. I thought they turned out cute!
