Fireflies Craft - Fingerprints and Handprint

This sweet project was fun to do with Tripp (22 months old) and will be a reminder of how small he was this summer.

For this project, I used:

• Construction paper (green, blue, yellow, and black)
• Washable paint (yellow and white)
• Aluminum foil
• A black pen - you could use Sharpie, or go fancy like me and use a Sakura Pigma Brush

My process:

1. First, I wrote out the Fireflies poem on yellow construction paper. Please forgive my awful handwriting! Here is the text of the poem, which is by Meish Goldish.
   Glowing, glowing in the night
   Fireflies shine a yellow light.
   Flashing signals to their mates,
   Such a bright sight each creates!
   Glowing, glowing in the night,
   Fireflies shine a yellow light.
2. Next, I cut the yellow construction paper in the shape of a beam of light (sort of). I also cut out the blue jar and the black shape for the flashlight itself.
3. Tripp and I read the Fireflies poem together and I talked a little about fireflies and the colors of the construction paper.
4. I glued down the two parts of the flashlight.
5. I painted Tripp's hand white and we pressed it down on the handle of the flashlight to look as though he was holding it.
6. I painted Tripp's thumb yellow and we pressed it down on the blue jar. We repeated this process until we had five cute fingerprints.
7. When the fingerprints were dry, I added little wings with my brush pen.
8. We glued aluminum foil to the top of the jar to look like the lid.
9. Finally, we glued the jar down and called it good!