Handprint Watercolor Painting

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a great time to start talking about equality and reinforcing the concepts embodied by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.

This handprint watercolor painting is a great way to start that. You can learn about the colors of the skin and just how many there are.

It is a simple activity and a great way to talk about concepts like racism, equality, the civil rights movement, and having dreams.

Handprint Watercolor Painting - for a fun Unity and a great way to talk about just being happy with who you are along with equality - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Handprint Watercolor Painting is a great addition to the cookie cutter crafts on the site.

What is Cookie Cutter Painting?

Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.

Handprint Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters

Handprint watercolor painting is painting inside Handprint cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.

You have two sizes of handprint cookie cutters and use these to paint the colors for of the world with kids. A great idea for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And for any time of the year.

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Books to Read with the Hand Watercolor Painting

Shades of People by Shelley Rotner is a great book that shorts just how ma y different colors you will see. Plus you will see people in different setting. She also has a board book version called All Kinds of People

All People Are Beautiful is a great book about diversity and acceptance in a colorful way. Each page is full the different types of colors, hair, sizes, and more. You will love to see all the different people and how beautiful they are.

Brown: The Many Shades of Love is another great book that looks that the different shades you can find skin color. And has great watercolor pictures.

What we used to make the Handprint Watercolor Painting

watercolors
watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
hand cookie cutters or use this hand cookie cutter
Crayola Colors of The World Skin Tone Crayon

Colors of the World Crayons

Crayola has several sets of crayons, markers, and colored pencils you can check out in the different colors of the world.

You can have these out on display as you are doing the craft so kids can see just how many shades there are!

Crayola Colors of the World Crayons for kids to see - 3Dinosaurs.com

How we made the Handprint Watercolor Painting

You can see the steps below that we used to make the Handprint watercolor painting.

Place the Handprint Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper

You place the handprint cookie cutter on the watercolor paper. You want to hold the outside of the cookie cutter or the top.

Kids can place this anywhere on the page.

Hold the Handprint Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside

While you are holding the cookie cutter, you use a paint brush and paint inside the cookie cutter.

This is great for fine motor as you are painting and holding the cookie cutter.

Kids can use any color they want when doing their painting. You can always refer back to the crayons.

Look the the Handprint on the Paper

After you are done painting you can look at the hand that you painting. You can see the shape of the hand.

Keep Painting Handprint

Then you just keep painting another handprint. It won’t matter where the next hand is painted. You just pick another color and keep painting.

You can encourage them to paint lots of different colors. It is an amazing picture for kids to see the different handprints together on the paper. You can have the hands overlap or keep them all septate on the paper. Let kids decide how they will do their painting.

You can also flip the cookie cutter over to get right and left hands on the paper.