Here’s a quick and easy project that would be great for a class Halloween party — thumbprint art inspired by Ed Emberley. I’m looking forward to Cloud 9’s upcoming collection of Ed Emberley prints, which inspired me to buy a couple of drawing books for my kids. The pumpkins above were made by my six-year-old and I especially like the crying pumpkin! So sad.
I thought this would be a simple craft for our Halloween carnival this past weekend. We made bookmarks; and since the kids were all different ages, we put out different colored ink pads, made some samples and let them have at it in a pretty free form way. I think the key to getting younger kids to make decent-looking art for a project is to limit their choices. So with preschool kids, it would be a good idea to stick with pumpkin thumbprints and let them draw all kinds of different faces. Older kids can get more creative and make bats, monsters, spiders and witches.
My older daughter has spent hours over the past few weeks working on different kinds of thumbprint art from this book, as you can see below.
And on a different note, Chronicle Books is having a Halloween book sale! Use code HALLOWEEN at checkout for 30% off plus free ground shipping. Be sure to pick up a copy of 1, 2, 3 Sew! Get a head-start on your holiday shopping! The offer expires Monday.
What cute little thumbprint art!(the lion is my favorite) I used to love doing it as a kid.