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Handprint Alphabet – J for Jellyfish

June 16, 2012

Welcome back to the handprint alphabet series. Today we looked at “J” for…. Jellyfish. We settled on jellyfish pretty quickly and I was relieved not to have to figure out how to do a handprint jaguar…..

We had great fun doing the jellyfish!

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handprint art

For the handprint jellyfish, we left the thumb “clean” and only painted the four fingers. I encouraged the children to touch the paper with their FINGERTIP only first – give them a wiggly little line and then press the whole hand down …. hoping to achieve the long swaying tentacles of the jellyfish!

Pip Squeak ADORED this letter.

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handprint alphabet

Red Ted’s jelly fish. Both children adored adding the watery air bubbles with their finger tips. Red Ted also chose big googly eyes and a big smile!

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jellyfish

Pip Squeak enjoyed spending AGES choosing what size googly eyes to use. I don’t think her 3rd jellyfish was meant to look sad. She just got her lines a little muddled!

Her is Red Ted using up the remaining paint. I always let them – so that they can “discover and explore” what happens with colour, especially in view or our Kids Get Arty series, where I want the children to explore and learn about art and making marks etc:

arty kids

Aaah, we did like doing this set of handprints!

Handprint Art A,  Handprint Art B,  Handprint Art C, Handprint Art D, Handprint Art F , Handprint Art G, Handprint H, Handprint Art I

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  1. Sarah says

    June 19, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    This is my favorite so far…but I think I say that about all of your hand print alphabet characters. Oh! You should come up with rhymes for them and market it in a book. Seriously. It’d be really popular!

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  2. Red Ted Art says

    June 19, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    @Sarah ooooh what a lovely idea about rhymes, was thinking of collecting them in a simple ebook anyway (as they are “there”…), but you are right a short rhyme with each would be FAB!

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  3. Pinkoddy says

    June 19, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    Those are great jellyfish. I like the blue fingerprints around them.

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  4. Sian says

    June 20, 2012 at 7:43 am

    lovely – made me smile today : )

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  5. Red Ted Art says

    June 20, 2012 at 8:39 am

    Awe thank you! Aim achieved 🙂 we like making people smile!

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  6. colleen says

    June 20, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    how cute (:

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  7. Rebecca says

    June 21, 2012 at 7:13 pm

    So cute, and wonderfully messy!

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    • Red Ted Art says

      June 22, 2012 at 8:51 am

      Oh yes, they liked the messy bit!

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  8. Allison says

    June 21, 2012 at 11:29 pm

    I saw this on the Sunday Showcase and wanted to comment. I love how cute and yet simple these are! My little guys love finger and hand painting, and I think they would be tickled to make these. Pinning!

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  9. crystal@growingajeweledrose says

    June 26, 2012 at 4:33 am

    I love this whole handprint letter series! Thanks so much for sharing this with Tuesday Tots last week. I have pinned it to a few different boards now 🙂

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    • Red Ted Art says

      June 26, 2012 at 8:16 am

      Thank you! And thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  10. Dee says

    July 11, 2012 at 11:45 am

    I love this idea! My daughter will be a frist year teacher and is starting out the year with Under The Sea so this is great! I am sure this site will be a great tool for her to get some great ideas and advise.

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  11. lifetimenanny says

    August 19, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    I am going through what you have done so far. I love them all. I can’t wait to do this series in the fall. I love love the jellyfish. I am so happy I found your site.

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    • Red Ted Art says

      August 19, 2012 at 4:25 pm

      Awe!! That is a lovely thing to say!!! 🙂 Thank you!

      Reply

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