Hello all!
Today I decided to work with ink stamp pads with my daughter to create some cute characters. Of course, we played around a bit first, got all messy and then we were ready to stamp our fingerprints.
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| Her thumb print |
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| My thumb print |
After the thumb print was done, I added a few ink marks and voila we have a thumb print apple! I drew a small shape that looks like a thinned out triangle for the stem and on oval shape with lines going across for the leaf. Of course, her thumb print looked a little bit like a pear shape but we still called it an apple. She had a lot of fun playing around with an ink pad and creating all these little dots on a page.
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| To make the apple |
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| Her thumb print apple |
After creating the apple we continued playing a bit and this is what we came up with, a bumble bee.
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| Her thumb print |
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| To make the bee |
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| Her thumb print bee |
I thought these were really cute. I was thinking of working on a few at a time and maybe creating a thumb print character for each letter of the alphabet, put them all together and we have a quick and easy alphabet book!
Resources:
Ed Emberley's Complete Funprint Drawing Book
Pins on Pinterest with lots of ideas for thumb prints:
