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Home » Crafty Corner » Cards » 10 Minute Crafts: Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day

10 Minute Crafts: Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day

Cards, Crafty Corner

If you have come across my little blog before, you might be aware that although I absolutely love all things crafty, I am also useless at drawing. One thing I find pretty effective when making cards with the children is going for fingerprint art.

Check our cute reindeer

Thumbprint Art - Reindeers

and snowmen:

Thumbprint Art - Snowmen

When Bostik challenged us to create something following a ‘jungle’ theme, we had no idea what to do, then I remembered a card Crevette made at school a couple of years ago for Father’s Day. It had simple painted monkeys swinging from vine to vine. I had an epiphany: we would be making our own fingerprint monkeys!

What You Need:

An A4 piece of card (we went for light grey)

A couple of patterned or textured papers (we went for green handmade paper I had been given and dotty patterned paper in shades of green, brown, grey and orange)

A piece of light green card (10x15cm)

Bostik Fine & Wide Glu Pen

A piece of string

Brown chalk inkpad

Brown, black & green felt-tip pens

scissors

10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day - What You Need

What to Do:

Start by writing, “We / I love hanging with you Dad / Daddy!”

Using the fine end of the Glu Pen, draw a curved line of glue and stick the string over it.

10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day - Stick

Get your little one(s) to make a little finger print near the string, and a larger thumb print directly under it.

10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day - Fingerprints

Help them draw eyes and mouth in black, then ears, arms, legs and tail in brown and leaves in green.

10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day - Drawing

Fold the A4 card in two so you end up with an A5 card.

Layer the different papers to get the desired arrangement and stick, using the wide end of the Glu Pen.

10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day

Write the card!

10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day - Love Hanging with You

If you are looking for quick and easy activities to do on a rainy day with your children, why not try our bunny garland, hatching dragons, washi tape cards, toilet paper roll bunnies, reindeer lanterns, cute button card, paper cup dragon, finger painting, bath painting, thumbprint art, heart-themed crafts, an embroidered canvas , a stained-glass picture, cute caterpillars or even make your own play dough?
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10 Minute Crafts - Make a Monkey Fingerprint Card for Father’s Day - Love Hanging With You Dad

Disclosure: Bostik sent us a selection of crafting supplies free of charge as part of the Tots100/Bostik Craft Bloggers’ Club.  All photos and opinions are my own.

 

15/06/2016 · 19 Comments

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  1. Isabel O says

    15/06/2016 at 4:15 pm

    What a sweet idea! I wonder if we could make fingerprint bears the same way? I think I might help my niece make one for her daddy this week.

    Reply
    • Mel says

      16/06/2016 at 1:47 pm

      I’ve just looked into it for you. I couldn’t find an example of a fingerprint bear, but I found this cute bear made with a fork. What do you think? https://uk.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=fingerprint%20bear&rs=typed&0=fingerprint%7Ctyped&1=bear%7Ctyped

      Reply
  2. Reneé Davis Author says

    15/06/2016 at 6:25 pm

    Super cute card and lovely pic of your little man xx

    Reply
    • Mel says

      16/06/2016 at 1:43 pm

      Thanks honey. Now we’ve got to find the cards. I hid them too well!

      Reply
  3. adeline bovière says

    15/06/2016 at 7:49 pm

    c’est super beau! très bonne idée!!!!

    Reply
  4. Colette B says

    17/06/2016 at 1:01 pm

    Love a good finger print craft! I could see these being made on a conveyor belt in a nursery classroom 🙂
    (And you’ve just reminded me that I haven’t sorted cards for Sunday *bleeep*)

    Reply
    • Mel says

      17/06/2016 at 1:32 pm

      They’re perfect for nursery, aren’t they? Love a bit of fingerprint art. That’s all we can manage, he he!

      Reply
  5. Kara Guppy says

    17/06/2016 at 1:43 pm

    What a brilliant idea, I bet Daddy will love receiving that!

    Reply
    • Mel says

      18/06/2016 at 12:22 pm

      Well, we’ve sort of lost the card… I hid it so well I can’t find it. Aaaargh!

      Reply
  6. sabrina says

    17/06/2016 at 3:01 pm

    Aw that is such a cute card! And good idea using fingerprints, that way it’s a keepsake too x

    Reply
    • Mel says

      18/06/2016 at 12:22 pm

      It is! That’s why I love fingerprint cards so much – you can really see the difference in their thumbprint sizes over the years. Such a great way to keep their thumbprints!

      Reply
  7. Kate Fever (@FamilyFever) says

    17/06/2016 at 6:13 pm

    Fingerprint paintings are ace! Not thought about making monkeys before, but that’s going on the to do list!

    Reply
  8. adeline bovière says

    18/06/2016 at 6:18 pm

    notre carte 3 petits singes pour la fête des papas est prête, c’était tellement une super idée, que j’ai copié, biz je t’enverrai une photo, chez nous il n’y en a que 3!!!!! bizzz

    Reply
    • Mel says

      19/06/2016 at 10:58 pm

      J’ai adoré votre carte! Trop contente que tu aies aimé au point d’en faire une pour J. xxxx

      Reply
  9. Five Adventurers says

    20/06/2016 at 1:07 pm

    Awww these are beautiful! Love the monkeys and snowmen! will definitely be doing this at Christmas, loving your finished product 🙂

    Reply
    • Mel says

      20/06/2016 at 9:05 pm

      Thanks lovely. The beauty of it is it takes no time to make and it fingerprint art usually looks good. Win, win!

      Reply
  10. Viki Marden says

    20/06/2016 at 8:49 pm

    This is so easy to do yet so understated. They are so cute x

    Reply
    • Mel says

      21/06/2016 at 12:21 pm

      Thanks Viki!

      Reply

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