Turn Your Handprint Into Birds and Jellyfish

By Sana Kifafi

Jan 23, 2024

30 min activity

Lyla is a creative thinker who thinks of many ways to reuse things. She gives Stu instructions on how to turn a handprint into a bird or a jellyfish. Stu and Lyla work together and decide which creation will be transformed into a jellyfish and which one into a bird.

You and your child can make this craft together, too. Plan ahead and decide which paper color will be transformed into which animal.

Materials

Directions

Decide together — or have your child choose! — which color paper will be birds and which color paper will be jellyfish. For example, if the paper is purple, then it will be turned into a jellyfish. Then, ask your child to trace their hand — or yours! — on a sheet of paper.

Carefully, cut out the hand shape. Cut out more than one hand shape by laying one sheet of paper over another.

Pick up a paper hand and ask your child to remind you what to do next. For example, you can ask, “What did we decide to make if the paper is blue?” If the hand is the color you chose for jellyfish, glue two eyes on the palm. No googly eyes? No problem! Draw eyes with a marker. Then, add some details with a marker in the finger parts to make the hand look like a jellyfish. Don’t forget to give your jellyfish a mouth!

If the hand is the color you chose for birds, glue feathers on the finger parts. If you don’t have feathers, make them out of different colors of construction paper. Flip over the hand. Glue one eye on the thumb part, or draw an eye with a marker. Now it’s a bird!