Cute Fingerprint Snowman Collage by I Heart Crafty Things

Hi! This is Rachel from I Heart Crafty Things. Like most Moms, I am a huge fan of hand and foot print art so when Amanda asked me to guest post I was delighted to get crafting! Since Christmas is fast approaching we just got done reading Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner. We thought it would be super fun to make a snowman collage using our fingerprints to go along with the story.

I saw this idea in The Usborne Book of Christmas Art Ideas which I happened to get at my local thrift store for 50 cents (score!).

How to make the Fingerprint Snowman Collage Art Project

We started by cutting a sheet of cardstock paper in half. I thought a whole sheet would be too much for the kids but you be the judge. I used blue so the white snowmen would stand out.

Have your children press their thumbprints and fingerprints on the paper to make snowmen.

After the paint is dry, use a fine tip black marker to draw eyes, a mouth and arms on your snowmen. We also used different color fine-tipped markers to draw buttons on the snowmen.

To paint on the carrot nose, I cut a small strip of cardboard. Then we dipped the end into orange paint and pressed it onto each snowman.

We then used the same painting technique to paint hats on the snowmen. I pressed the cardboard piece down and then slid the bottom of it over to create the triangle shape. That didn't work so well for the kids. Instead they just painted with the little cardboard piece like a paint brush.

We had a lot of different cardboard strips going on for all the colors. I thought I'd show you what it looked like so you could see how you don't really need that much paint at all. We also used some glitter glue to add glitter to the snowmen hats.

After the paint was completely dry, I added some ribbon scarves on some of the snowmen. To do this I used a craft knife to cut two small slits under the snowman's head. Then I pulled a small piece of gift wrapping ribbon through the holes and tied a knot. We used a variety of different colors.

The boys snowmen scene's turned out soooo cute! Here is my oldest son's (age 7).

Here's a close-up of some of the snowmen.

Here is my youngest son's snowmen (age 4) and a close up of some of his snowmen below.

My boys LOVED this craft and I'm not gonna lie, I obviously did too!  🙂  You can create some pretty funny scenes with your snowman. These would make the cutest cards for Christmas if you folded your paper in half instead of cutting it.

I am a Wife and Mommy to three who LOVES doing arts and crafts with my kids. The kids section of the library is like my second home. We love making crafts based on stories we are reading. One of my most favorite crafts we've done this year has been our House for Hermit Crab, which happened to be inspired by a post I saw in this crab craft post found right here on Fun Handprint Art.

Another fun craft we did this year using our hand prints was our My Five Piggies Craft to go along with the popular children's story Piggies by Audrey Wood.

I hope you enjoyed our fingerprint snowmen collage art. I'd love for you to stop by I Heart Crafty Things to check out more of our fun kids crafts. Thanks for having me Amanda!

Merry Christmas and Happy Crafting!!