Thursday, August 30, 2012

Thumb Print Characters

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.

Her thumb print
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.

To make the apple
Her thumb print apple
After creating the apple we continued playing a bit and this is what we came up with, a bumble bee.

Her thumb print
To make the bee
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:

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