Finger Painting 4 Season Hand Trees

Finger Painting – 4 Season Hand Trees

23/9/2016

A fun engaging colourful project that you can spread over 4 different school painting lessons. A great way to get children thinking about the colour of the four seasons. It is always a lot of fun getting your hands covered in paint.

Spring Hand Tree

Summer Hand Tree

Autumn Hand Tree

Winter Hand Tree

You Will Need:
Super Tempera Poster Paint or Total Wash Paint.
Paper 4 sheets
Hand Towels & Plastic protective cover sheets.
Bowls of water for cleaning hands between colours.
Shallow Paint Trays or ice cream container lids
Brushes - optional

Let’s Get Started:
Brown Tree:
There are two ways to paint the brown tree. You can either paint hands and wrists with a brush in a brown tempera paint or spread the paint on a flat washable (wipe-able) surface and lay your hand in the paint making sure you get the wrist for the trunk.
Make sure you have a good covering but no too drippy. Try one first to get comfortable with the correct paint loading.
While the hands are brown do the other three seasons tree prints.

Seasons:
Show photos of the 4 seasons and talk with the children about the seasons and the colours they see. Have paint handy so you can ask if the class can see this colour in the photos.
Once you have selected your colours. Pour paint colours of the season that you are painting into the trays. Use your finger tips to create leaves, grass, bugs, sun, rain, sky or flowers. By doing small colourful finger prints.
Try to only use fingers of one hand at a time. This helps with cleaning.

Finger Painting – 4 Season Hand Trees Lesson PDF