Here’s a fun fingerprint snowman craft idea for kids and adults–use fingers and thumbs to make fingerprint snowman Christmas cards and other fun winter snowman crafts with this easy DIY tutorial. (First published on November 26, 2018; this post is updated and republished to improve the content.)
Here are a few fingerprint art snowman craft ideas to make in the classroom or at home in the wintertime. Encourage children from toddlers to teens to make fingerprint snowman crafts and snowman Christmas cards with the step-by-step fingerprint snowman craft tutorial below. Stamping fingerprints to make snowmen is a fun winter craft idea for kids and adults. Best of all, fingerprint snowman crafts can be made into simple homemade cards for the winter solstice, Hannukah, or Christmas.
Fingerprint snowman cards also make great DIY thank you cards to send to friends and relatives in the New Year, and homemade cards kids can hand out to classmates and friends for Valentine’s Day. Invite kids to make festive fingerprint snowman Christmas cards and other fun snowman crafts with the easy instructions below this holiday season. You might also enjoy this list of homemade Christmas card ideas.
DIY Fingerprint Snowman Crafts and Cards
This easy project tutorial teaches how to make fingerprint snowman art for Christmas cards and other fun winter crafts. Fingerprint art snowman crafts are fun to make with kids at home or in the classroom. You might also enjoy this list of winter painting ideas.
My daughter and I had a blast creating fingerprint art to make Christmas cards with a snowman, and we sent some off as thank-you cards to family and friends after Christmas. The next time we made them, my daughter handed them out to classmates for Valentine’s Day.
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Or, use the step-by-step DIY fingerprint snowman art instructions to make fingerprint snowman ornaments and other winter snowman crafts. In other words, use the directions below to stamp snowman art on blank-colored greeting cards, construction paper, or cardstock. Or stamp fingerprint snowmen on wood, canvas, ornaments, and more! You might also enjoy making these cute DIY clay snowman ornaments!
If you like making fingerprint snowman arts and crafts, here are several fingerprint snowman ideas for projects. Fingerprint crafts are always a great gift for mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa! Look at this giant list of gifts kids can make for parents, grandparents, teachers, siblings, cousins, and friends for even more homemade gift ideas.
Fingerprint Snowman Craft Supplies:
First, gather the snowman fingerprint craft supplies you want to use to make snowman arts and crafts from the recommendations below. Next, invite children to build a snowman with their fingers or thumbs using the DIY snowman craft tutorial in the next section. Or check out these fun Christmas handprint, footprint, fingerprint craft, and card ideas you can try.
- White tempera or acrylic paint.
- Extra fine-tip paint pens or permanent markers.
- Blank greeting cards, construction paper, cardstock, or ornaments (choose at least one of the following craft materials to stamp fingerprint snowman art on):
- Blue greeting cards.
- Kraft brown blank greeting cards.
- Red and or green blank greeting cards.
- Construction paper.
- Colored cardstock.
- Wood slice ornaments
- Shatterproof ornaments
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How to Make Fingerprint Snowman for Crafts and Cards
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1. Make a fingerprint snowman, or snowpeople, for homemade snowman crafts and cards.
- Make winter snowman crafts or cards with the easy step-by-step instructions below.
- Encourage artists to dip their fingers and thumbs into white paint to make fingerprint snowpeople on the front of blank greeting cards to make fingerprint snowman Christmas cards.
- Or invite them to make fingerprint snowman crafts on construction paper, colored cardstock, wood slices, or ornaments.
- Because there is more than one way to make a fingerprint snowman or snowwoman, we have created instructions for two easy ways to make them. Follow either of the step-by-step instructions below to make cute fingerprint snowman crafts.
How to make a fingerprint snowman Craft:
- Dip the tip of your index or pointer finger (or thumb) in white tempera paint and press it onto the paper to create the bottom of the fingerprint snowman.
- Next, dip your pointer finger into white tempera paint and press it onto the paper above the bottom to create the fingerprint snowman’s midsection.
- Finally, dip your pinky finger into white tempera paint and press onto the paper above the midsection to create a head for the fingerprint snowman.
- Allow snowman fingerprint art to dry before moving on to step 2.
How to make a fingerprint and thumbprint snowman:
- First, stamp your thumb in white tempera paint,
- Then, press it onto a blank greeting card, construction paper, cardstock, wood slice, or ornament to create the snowman’s body with your finger prints.
- Next, dip your pinky or index finger in white tempera paint.
- Then, press it onto the card, paper, or ornament above the snowman’s body to make the fingerprint on the snowman’s head.
- The photograph below shows this type of fingerprint snowman craft on a blank blue greeting card, but you can use many other types of cards, paper, and craft supplies to make these fun winter crafts.
- Allow snowman fingerprint art to dry before moving on to step two.
As you can see in the photograph above, my daughter made two thumbprint snowpeople (white snowmen), on each Christmas card, but you can make as many as you like!
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2. Add facial features, arms, buttons, hats, scarves, and other accessories, to each fingerprint snowman craft.
- Once the white paint is dry, invite children or adults to use markers to draw snowman accessories.
- Decorate each fingerprint snowman craft with extra-fine tip paint pens or permanent markers.
- Encourage children to add snowman eyes, carrot noses, arms, buttons, top hats, caps, glasses, scarves, ear muffs, etc., to fingerprint snowman crafts.
- Specific snowman craft ideas for your fingerprint snowman cards and crafts can be found below.
How to decorate a fingerprint snowman Craft:
- Use extra fine-tip paint pens or permanent markers to create eyes, stick arms, carrot noses, buttons, and clothes on the fingerprint snowman craft.
- Make round eyes, closed eyes (with or without lashes), or whatever else you can imagine.
- Use an orange paint pen to draw a carrot nose or a black paint pen to dot a simple coal nose.
- Draw smiling mouths or coal mouths with a black marker, or draw pursed red lips on fingerprint snowman and snowwoman craft faces.
- Put a string of buttons on the torso of the fingerprint snowman or leave it blank–up to you. (Draw colored buttons, or make them black like coal.)
- Draw stick arms in fun and silly ways doing all manner of actions–or leave them off. Both options are shown in the photographs.
- Draw things in their hands, like hot cocoa, candy canes, and other fun winter props if desired.
- To make clothes, draw top hats, knit caps, ear warmers, scarves, glasses, etc.
- Dip the tip of a pinky finger in white tempera paint to make the white pom-poms for the end of their knit caps.
- Make fingerprint or thumbprint hearts between two fingerprint snowpeople or above their heads.
- Or use a paint pen to draw hearts or snowflakes (or make fingerprint snowflakes) around the snowmen and women. (optional)
- Scroll up and down to look at each of the fingerprint snowman card photographs to see different snowman art ideas you can use to make snowman crafts such as cards or handmade ornaments.
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3. Give or send fingerprint snowman cards and crafts to family and friends. (optional)
- Family and friends love to receive handmade keepsakes from the kids, so fingerprint-art snowman cards and crafts are guaranteed to put a smile on a loved one’s face.
- Cards, of course, allow writing holiday greetings or notes of love and thanks to loved ones and other important people in your life–but homemade snowman arts and crafts are just as much fun.
- So, whether you use these instructions to make fingerprint snowman crafts or snowman cards, send them off for the winter solstice, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or as a personalized way to say thanks for the Christmas gifts!
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Handmade Snowman Cards Kids Can Make for Christmas
Snowman fingerprint cards are a fun winter snowman craft that kids and adults can make for the winter solstice, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, to say thank you, or just because. Best of all, making fingerprint snowmen and women is an art project the whole family or classroom can enjoy together.
So, this year, spend time making handmade thumbprint snowman cards with the kids at home or in the classroom. Or, make these super cute homemade snowman ornament crafts.
You might also enjoy this cute list of thumbprint heart crafts (and gift ideas) or this list of Christmas handprint footprint and fingerprint art card ideas.
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Barbara says
The fingerprint cards are adorable. My husband and I have been married for 53 years, but I still think the “husband and wife” snowman with the hearts would be cute for family and friends. Thanks so much for keeping it simple!
Nell Regan M.A. says
Aww, thanks, Barbara! That’s so sweet of your to say. I think it would be wonderful to get a fingerprint snowman and snowwoman card from a couple–that’s why we make simple crafts for kids and the young at heart. Enjoy!
Happy holidays,
Nell