Use children's handprints for a variety of fall projects.
Handprint activities are versatile in the kindergarten classroom. Children can trace and cut out their hands and use them in a variety of activities to mark the fall season. Help students decorate the fingers as feathers, wings or branches.
Turkey
Thanksgiving typically brings thoughts of turkey. The autumn is an opportune time to make a handprint turkey during a lesson about the origin of the national holiday. Have the children put their non-dominant hands, with the fingers spread, on brown construction paper. Instruct the children to trace their hands with a marker. Show them use crayons to add the distinctive red wattle that hangs from the turkey's beak, and the dark brown or black snood at the top of the turkey's head. Tell the students to give the turkey an eye and mouth. Encourage the students to color the fingers as autumn-colored feathers, using yellow, orange and brown.
Tree
A handprint that includes the wrist can make a good shape for a tree. Have each child place his forearm, hand and wrist on brown construction paper. Instruct him to spread out his fingers and trace the arm, wrist and fingers with a pencil. Instruct the children to cut out the trees with scissors and glue them on a piece of white paper. Use various stencils of leaves and multi-colored paper to cut out autumn leaves. Help students glue the leaves onto the branches of their trees, as well as on the ground to show the falling leaves.
Bat
During Halloween, kindergarten students can make a handprint bat. Have each child trace and cut out her hand, with the fingers spread, using black construction paper and a piece of white chalk. Give each student the shape of a bat's body. Help the students attach their handprints to the back of the bat's body; glue the handprints to the middle of the back so that the fingers resemble the bat's wings. Help the students make eyes and a mouth, and use two pieces of candy corn for fangs.
Wreaths
Use the same basic idea to make handprint wreaths in the fall, but change the colors and embellishments to suit the particular holiday. Help the children cut handprints out of brown, yellow and orange construction paper for a Thanksgiving wreath. Instruct each child to write something for which he is thankful on his own handprint. Glue all handprints on white paper in a circle, either with the fingers overlapping the palms, or with all palms facing the middle of the wreath and the fingers spread out. In the late fall, use green and red handprints to make a Christmas wreath.
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