Art Day #2: Fingerprint People


Materials:

  • Fingers
  • Tempera cakes
  • Brushes
  • Markers
  • Tempera paint sticks
  • Pens
  • Ceramic mixing palette (old plate)
  • Paper

Preparation:

None required


What we did:

  • Made fingerprint people by:
    • Making fingerprints with tempera paint cakes, or
    • Making fingerprint shapes with tempera paint sticks or markers
    • Then adding eyes, mouths, hair, arms, and legs using pens and markers
    • Also adding hats, skateboards, jungle gyms, swings, and slides
  • Mixed the color orange from red and yellow tempera cakes
    • When mixing paints, remember to add the darker color to the lighter color, just a little bit at a time. You can always add more, but you can’t take away paint.

Homework:

Make the color green by mixing blue and yellow tempera cake colors.