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Christmas fingerprint art is a great way to create personalized and cherished keepsakes with your grandkids. We’re sharing six absolutely adorable ideas for Christmas fingerprint crafts, along with how you can emphasize the very special nature of your grandchild’s unique and precious little fingerprints.
You can certainly use cardstock for all of these ideas, or create gifts by framing them, printing on pre-made Christmas ornaments, ceramic tiles (think coasters) or even use fabric paint for custom shirts.
1. Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards
Have your grandkids create Christmas tree designs using their fingerprints. They can make evergreen branches on their trees using green paint, or add fingerprint ornaments to a tree printout using colorful paint. Keep the paint (or use ink) thin so you can see the amazing detail of their prints – each so unique!
2. Reindeer Thumbprints
Transform your grandkids’ thumbprints into cute reindeer faces by adding antlers and facial features. Add a red nose for Rudolph and talk about what each of you are uniquely good at!
3. Fingerprint Snowman
Use fingerprints to create snowmen, with each fingerprint being a snowball on the snowman’s body. Then just draw in the rest of the snowman features. You can do this with cardstock, or a flat generic ornament or ‘slice’ of wood.
These personalized snowmen will melt your heart, and that’s a great segue for talking to your grandkids and learning about the things that they love. So cute!
4. Fingerprint Wreaths
Design Christmas wreaths using colorful fingerprints as the ornaments. Don’t those little prints just make the wreath complete? Reminds me of how our grandkids each play an important role in our families.
5. Fingerprint Christmas Lights
Draw a wavy line, then create a string of fingerprint Christmas lights, with each fingerprint being a different colored bulb. Highlight the idea that, just like the lights brighten up the holiday season, each of our grandkids light up our world.
6. Nativity Scene
Craft a Nativity scene with fingerprints as characters. This one’s a bit more involved, so we’re including a link to someone who explains it well! (https://www.craftymorning.com/baby-jesus-in-manger-fingerprint-craft/) You can tell the story of the arrival of Baby Jesus while you create this masterpiece.
I am reminded of an old song by Steven Curtis Chapman, The Fingerprints of God. As we cover papers with our fingerprints, I hope that we can effectively share with our grandkids that they are wonderfully and uniquely made – there will never be another person like them, and that they are covered with the fingerprints of God!
In closing….here are the lyrics to a portion of the song:
Never has there been and never again
Will there be another you
Fashioned by God’s hand
And perfectly planned
To be just who you are
And what He’s been creating
Since the first beat of your heart
Is a living breathing priceless work of art…
I can see the fingerprints of God
When I look at you
I can see the fingerprints of God
And I know it’s true
You’re a masterpiece
That all creation quietly applauds
And you’re covered with the fingerprints of God
Grandparents, you are also uniquely and wonderfully made to bless your grandkids and leave them with wonderful and lasting blessings they will hold onto forever. Happy crafting!