Make DIY fingerprint Christmas tree cards with this quick, festive holiday craft idea!
Homemade fingerprint Christmas lights cards are an easy Christmas tree craft and gift idea that kids can make for parents and grandparents to wish them Merry Christmas or Happy holidays. Mom and Dad love colorful, handmade keepsake gifts from the children in their lives, making this sweet fingerprint Christmas tree craft the perfect Christmas card and gift idea for them. Fingerprint Christmas tree light card crafts are also fun to make for siblings and friends, and they can be sent off to extended relatives.
This fingerprint Christmas lights craft tutorial, first published on December 4, 2018, is regularly updated to improve its content. Use this easy Christmas craft tutorial to make beautiful personalized keepsakes with colorful fingerprints for friends and relatives. You may also enjoy this collection of Christmas handprint, footprint, and fingerprint card ideas.
Fingerprint Christmas Tree Light Card Craft Idea
Creating fingerprint Christmas tree crafts for cards is a delightful way to celebrate this festive season. One of my family’s favorite Christmas traditions is making DIY holiday cards. With this simple Christmas craft tutorial, you can create beautiful homemade fingerprint Christmas light cards. The finished product is a wonderful keepsake that loved ones will treasure for years to come.
Fingerprint Christmas tree cards are a great handmade Christmas card idea for family and friends. This fingerprint Christmas tree craft is particularly suitable for children because it lets them use their fingerprints to create unique, colorful, personalized Christmas cards. Alternatively, you can make positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree cards. Click the link to see the step-by-step Christmas craft tutorial.
Homemade Christmas tree cards with fingerprint lights are a quick and easy gift idea that kids can make for parents and grandparents. They are fun to make with the kids at home or in the classroom for Christmas. They can be framed and hung as larger Christmas decorations or given as holiday gifts.
These fingerprint Christmas tree crafts foster creativity and create a meaningful keepsake for family and friends in a straightforward DIY project. Once finished, write a heartfelt message inside each card before sending it to friends, co-workers, and relatives. You can also include a unique homemade gift along with this fun and easy fingerprint lights craft.
How to Make Fingerprint Christmas Cards
Make DIY Christmas cards with fingerprint Christmas lights using the step-by-step instructions and video tutorial below. You might also enjoy making positive and negative Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards.
Fingerprint Lights Card Craft Supplies:
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- Hand-drawn Christmas tree shapes, Christmas Tree Cookie Cutters
, or FREE Christmas Tree Templates - Cardstock
- Precision detail craft scissors
- Color paints (tempera washable paints or acrylic paint)
- Wipes or a damp rag (to clean paint off fingers quickly)
- Fine tip permanent marker (Black Sharpie)
- Glue Stick
- Make fingerprint Christmas light cards with blank holiday greeting cards and envelopes in seasonal colors, including a beautiful wintery blue. You can also use basic Kraft brown or festive Christmas red and green.
- Alternatively, you can make this fingerprint tree light craft with brightly colored cardstock. (The step-by-step DIY tutorial below shows how to make fingerprint tree crafts instead of the Christmas cards in the photographs.)
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Fingerprint Christmas Lights Christmas Tree Cards Step-by-Step Instructions
Before starting this easy Christmas craft project, please read the step-by-step fingerprint Christmas tree card tutorial to understand the steps and what to expect. The step-by-step DIY video tutorial showing how to make fingerprint Christmas lights on cards is posted below these written instructions. You might also enjoy Fun Family Traditions for a Magical Holiday.
1. Prepare Christmas tree-shaped template:
- Draw a Christmas tree, trace a cookie cutter, or get access to and print these free Christmas tree templates onto cardstock.
- Trace the Christmas tree-shaped cookie cutter several times, or print Christmas tree-shaped templates onto several pages of cardstock , depending on the number of cards you want to make.
- Cardstock works better than regular paper because it creates a lovely, thick Christmas tree-shaped template sturdy enough for kids to decorate with fingerprint Christmas lights.
- As the printable demonstrates, you can draw or trace approximately 4-5 Christmas trees per sheet of cardstock. Draw, trace, or print the number of Christmas tree shapes you need to match the number of cards you want to make.
- Because the printable has four Christmas trees, printing one page will create four templates, totaling four Fingeprint Christmas tree cards.
- Finally, cut out each Christmas tree shape before moving on to the next step.
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, depending on the number of cards you want to make.2. Cut Christmas trees for fingerprint light cards:
- Use precision detail scissors to cut out the Christmas tree-shaped templates for this fingerprint lights craft.
- Cutting with scissors to cut out Christmas tree shapes is an excellent way for younger children and older adults to exercise the fine motor muscles of the hand.
- With screen use increasing, fine motor activities are more important now than ever!
3. Use a fine-tip permanent marker to draw a light string on each Christmas tree cutout to make fingerprint Christmas lights:
- For best results, use a fine-tip black permanent marker to make the light string for the fingerprint lights on Christmas cards. (An extra-fine-tip permanent marker will create a too-thin line for this Christmas craft.)
- It’s easy to draw by hand without a fingerprint Christmas lights template. Use the following instructions:
- Move the pen in swirls and squiggles as you draw a line from the top to the bottom of the Christmas tree to create a baseline for the string of fingerprint lights.
- As you draw down the Christmas tree, move your Christmas light string from side to side (left to right), similar to how you would wrap a real evergreen tree with Christmas lights.
- Creating this simple fingerprint Christmas light template with markers makes it easy for children to decorate the light strand with stamped fingerprint lights.
- Please scroll down to watch the video tutorial, where my daughter creatively demonstrates how to make the beautiful yet straightforward fingerprint Christmas light cards shown in the photographs.
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4. Invite children to decorate the fingerprint Christmas lights craft:
- Invite your children to dip their fingers into acrylic or tempera paint to stamp fingerprint light bulbs on the Christmas tree cutouts.
- My daughter used tempera paint to make the fingerprint Christmas lights in the photographs for this tutorial, but acrylic paint also works well to dot bulbs.
- Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten students can stamp their index finger or thumb into the paint to create the light bulbs, while teens and adults can use their pinkie fingers to make fingerprint Christmas lights.
- An alternative to a child’s finger and fingertips is to use a cotton swab or a pencil eraser to make the Christmas tree bulbs
- Dip the swab or eraser into the paint and then onto the paper.
- My daughter used red, green, yellow, orange, blue, and purple tempera paint to make the fingerprint Christmas lights craft shown in the photographs.
- She liked to use her pinky finger to make this Christmas craft because it made the cutest little fingerprint Christmas lights.
- Be sure to have wipes or a wet washcloth nearby so you can quickly wipe your fingers and use multiple colors.
- Watch the video below to see how my daughter made our fingerprint Christmas light cards with one color at a time.
to make the fingerprint Christmas lights craft shown in the photographs.
 or a wet washcloth nearby so you can quickly wipe your fingers and use multiple colors.5. To complete this Christmas craft, glue Christmas trees with fingerprint lights to the front of Christmas cards or colored cardstock:
- Invite children to glue each fingerprint light Christmas tree to the front of a festive-colored blank Holiday greeting card. Follow the simple directions below:
- Flip each Christmas tree over and rub glue on the back with a glue stick.
- Then flip the fingerprint lights Christmas tree over and glue it to the front of a blank greeting card or a piece of colored cardstock to complete the Christmas craft, as shown in the video craft tutorial.
- Flip each Christmas tree over and rub glue on the back with a glue stick
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Fingerprint Christmas Lights Craft Video Tutorial:
Fingerprint light cards are a fun and easy Christmas craft for kids. Learn how to make these simple fingerprint light crafts with the easy step-by-step fingerprint Christmas tree lights craft video tutorial below!
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Fingerprint Tree Christmas Lights Craft for Kids
Give everyone homemade Christmas cards with lights this holiday season! These Christmas lights fingerprint art cards are an easy fingerprint craft for children and adults. Handmade fingerprint Christmas light crafts are an easy keepsake gift idea that kids can make for parents and grandparents.
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Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author, photographer, and creator of this original fingerprint lights Christmas craft HERE, and Rhythms of Play HERE!
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Thanks, Carolle! I’m so glad that you like our DIY fingerprint lights cards.