Handprint Turtle Craft

Kids are going to love this Handprint Turtle Craft!

This craft is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners and even older kids. These turtles are made by tracing and cutting out your child’s handprint! How adorable! Take a look at the simple instructions below, along with what areas of development your child is learning and improving, because every craft is a learning experience too!

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materials:

Green card stock
Craft scissors
Small green pom-poms (about .5 of an inch size)
Liquid school glue
Pen
Googly eyes

Optional:

Paper plate
Q-tip

Instructions:

Trace your child’s hand on the green card stock using a pen or pencil. When tracing the thumb, make it a little bit bigger, this will be the head.

Next, cut out the handprint. Older kids can probably do this step on their own.

Prepare the glue by placing a little bit of liquid school glue onto the paper plate and place the q-tip onto the plate. This step lets younger kids apply the glue more easily, but you can skip this step all together if your kids are able to squeeze the glue bottles with no problem.
Next, glue the pom-poms onto the palm of the handprint. Let set.

Lastly, add the googly eye, draw a smile with the pen and a few details on each foot.

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What is my child learning and improving?

Fine motor skills (holding the q-tip to glue, picking up the pom-poms, gluing the googly eye)
Creativity
Hand-eye coordination (gluing the pom-poms and googly eye)