Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Handprint Spiders By Julie Joy Babies can do art, too! Tiny handprints turn into a creepy crawly spider in this activity. Infants enjoy the textures and the process. Curriculum Area Art/Sensory Before You Start Have some warm, sudsy water or wipes ready for clean up. Let's Begin 1. Using a paintbrush, cover baby’s hand with paint. Talk to the baby while dipping her hand in paint – does it tickle? 2. Press baby’s hand onto the paper. Lift up and turn the paper, pressing down again so that the hand sets down in the same area but the fingers are on the opposite side. 3. Clean up. Talk to baby while you wash her. 4. After the paint dries, draw in details such as eyes. 5. Some babies will not open their hands enough to get a good print. That’s okay. If you are really determined, draw around the hand instead. Furthermore Don’t forget to put the child’s name and the date on the picture. Parents will want to remember when their baby was so tiny.   Washable paint Construction paper Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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