I was looking at the pictures the fall trees that we made from arm and hand tracings, and it gave me the idea for the craft that we did today: Monster Hands!
I mentioned a while back that the local paint shop gave us some expired wall-paper sample books. If you can get your hands on a book or two for yourself, do it! I just asked, and the store manager happily handed FIVE books over to me. He said they just throw them out once they become outdated.
Wallpaper samples are AWESOME for crafting with, and beat the pants off paying for pricey scrap-book paper when it comes to kid’s crafts.
We chose some nifty green samples to trace hands and arms onto.
The Hooligans then glued fingernails onto the hands. I cut the red fingernails from craft foam, and I used a styrofoam meat tray for the black ones.
Then we used various lentils to decorate the arms with “warts”.
Creepy?
Oh yeah!
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I can’t believe anyone would want those wallpaper patterns on their walls…. great score for you, though! Love these!
Thanks, Everyone! They were neat to make. I got thinking, with all that paper, we could have done all sorts of hands: Witch hands, Werewolf hands, Princess hands…
I am IN LOVE with this craft! What an awesome idea! I never knew that you could get outdated wallpaper sample books like that, I’ll have to check around! I just facebooked this!
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How adorable! What a great way to use that wallpaper!
These are absolutely adorable! I’m on vacation and haven’t wanted to do anything crafty, but you just inspired me. I can’t wait to do it with my 2 sons. Thanks for the cute idea. I featured your post on Montessori MOMents’ Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Montessori-MOMents/186597394722411
Well, that’s quite the compliment, Lori! Glad you liked it so much.
Thanks for sharing on your page. I’m on my way over there now!
Love this – and looks like the home made glue works a treat!
They were fun to do. You could do witch hands, werewolf hands, princess hands….When you have the nifty paper, the possibilities are kind of endless.
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This is hilarious!!!!