Special Collage Handprint Art
Follow this tutorial to display some sweet children's handprints as a truly Special Collage Handprint Art piece!
Servings: 1 Collage
Cost: $3
Equipment
- White Uncoated Paper Plates, 9 Inch to use as pallets
- Stainless Steel, 12″ Metal Ruler, for edge lines (optional)
Ingredients
- 1 8 x 10 Inch Stretched Canvas
- Acrylic paint- background color
- Acrylic paint- one color for each child’s handprint
- Silver marker (PILOT Markers, 1 Gold & 1 Silver)
Instructions
- Paint the entire canvas a solid color of your choice.
- Let each child choose a color for their handprint.
- Squirt one color of paint at a time out on a paper plate. Use enough paint so you can spread the paint around on the plate in an area large enough for the child’s entire hand to fit.
- Arrange the prints so that the first handprint is up towards the top of the canvas with fingers up into the corner. This will prevent the first handprint from being in the center and covered up by the handprints that are added later.
- It doesn’t take very long for acrylic paints to dry, so you only need to wait a few minutes between each handprint.
- Use a clean plate for the new color of paint for the second grand. The second print will be in the upper part of the canvas with the fingers into the other corner. It will partially overlap the first handprint.
- Repeat this process for each grand with a new color of paint. Move down the canvas with each handprint as shown.
- Draw a smooth outline with a permanent marker that follows the edge of the handprints fairly closely.
- Add any more decorations that you'd like, such as a dotted line around the edge of the canvas. You can use a ruler to keep the line straight as you draw.
- You can choose to write the name of each grand on their print if you like, as well as add the children’s ages and/or the date on the bottom of the canvas to remember when the Special Collage Handprint Art project was made.