Finger Printing Bugs Art Set

Finger Painting Bugs Art Set

I love this small set for making whimsical fingerprint bugs. Touch a fingertip to one of the colored ink stampers. Press your finger on a piece of paper. Then use the stampers to add details, like wings and eyes, to your fingerprint. Viola, you have a bug.

 

The ink pads are 1.25" X 1.25" - just the right size for a single fingerprint - and are red, green, and blue. The stampers included are eyes, antennae, wings, shell, leaf, and a small head.

 

This is an activity that I use with kids who write large or don't have the distal control to make rounded letters. I use this set in several ways. I make the bugs illustrated on the included card (see above), I skip the stampers and draw the details instead, I use Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Thumbprint Drawing Book. This is a cool book for drawing small.

If you would like to read more about games that require writing or drawing in some form, check out my post Games That Require a Writing Tool.  

Try this:

• Choose a bug to draw and you and the individual each make the fingerprint. Draw one line at a time and let the individual copy you on his bug after each line.
• Stress drawing small lines and circles with control.
• Color in small dots or eyes with small circular movements.
• Use different fingertips for different sizes and shapes.
• Use spatial terms such as draw the right eye, draw the left antennae, print a leaf below the bug, etc.
• Work on precise fine motor control, distal finger control, finger isolation, efficient grasp, drawing small and controlled, spatial relations, visual closure, eye-hand coordination, creativity
  

In the tin: 3 small ink pads, 10 colored pencils, 10 small stampers

Ages 4+

 

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