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How to Create Fingerprint Art Projects

by Brain Ninjas

Create adorable ornaments that use simple materials. These Christmas ornaments can be shared with friends and family. You can even use them for other times of the year like Halloween or winter.

Are you looking for a quick and not-too-messy project for any age? Well, look no further than fingerprint art.

Using a little paint, construction paper and markers, your students can transform their fingerprints into different art projects with lots of engagement and very little time or clean up.

Even though this post focuses on using fingerprint art for Christmas, there are lots of ways you can use this type of art.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art Lessons, Christmas, christmas cards, Christmas Trees, Crafts, fingerprint art, Holidays and Seasonal, Makerspace, Winter

How to Make Recycled Can Characters

by Brain Ninjas

Upcycle cans from your house into these adorable can characters. It's great as a Christmas craft or a language arts character study.

Here’s a great reason to eat potato chips (you don’t have to eat them, but it’s a good excuse). Have your students collect Pringles cans or any other metal or cardboard can that has a plastic lid and upcycle them into a great holiday activity. Our students have loved making recycled can characters over the years.

This activity will work with other types of cans that are made of cardboard with a metal base and plastic lid.

We made our cans into snowmen, gingerbread men, penguins, Santas, elves and reindeer as a fun Christmas craft activity that parents will cherish for years to come.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art Lessons, Christmas, Crafts, ELA, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Recycling, Seasonal, Upcycling, Winter

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