Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards Kids Can Make – When you make one reverse fingerprint Christmas tree card, you will get two fingerprint tree cards… A positive and a negative fingerprint card! A Homemade Christmas decoration family and friends can enjoy for years to come!
Turn positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree cards into a keepsake gift by sending one fingerprint Christmas tree to grandma and the other fingerprint tree to grandpa so they end up with a set of fingerprint trees that they can frame and hang as a Christmas decoration!
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How to Make Positive and Negative Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards
Spend some time connecting with the kids making fingerprint Christmas tree cards. Family and friends love keepsake Christmas cards made by children. For more fun things to do in the days leading up to Christmas, pop over to have a look at Fun Family Christmas Traditions for a Magical Holiday.
If your children are able to trace and use scissors well enough to cut out Christmas trees they can help with every step of this Christmas card making activity.
Younger children can help by creating art with their fingertips and gluing the trees to the blank cards, while older kids can help with cutting, tracing, and fingerprint art.
Pair these homemade Christmas tree cards with fingerprint art magnets for an awesome homemade gift from the kids. For more gift ideas, have a look at Christmas gifts kids can make.
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Fingerprint Christmas Tree Card Materials
- Tempura paint
- Blank Greeting Cards & Envelopes 5×7 A7 White
- Christmas Tree Cookie Cutter or FREE Christmas Tree Art Templates
- Cardstock
- Painters Tape
- Glue Stick
- Pencil
- Children’s Scissors
or 
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Reverse Fingerprint Tree Cards Step By Step Directions
1. Get out your Christmas tree cookie cutter
or print out these Free Christmas Tree Templates on cardstock–you want a nice thick tree to trace.
2. Trace the cookie cutter or template onto sheets of cardstock
. Each tree will make two fingerprint Christmas cards.
3. Cut out traced Christmas trees.
4. Use painters tape to attach one Christmas tree to the front of a blank greeting card
. Repeat until all cut trees are attached to a card.
5. Invite your child to paint the cards with the Christmas tree taped to the front with their fingerprints using tempera paint color (or colors) of choice. You can also use pencil eraser tips, cotton swabs, or Kwik Stix to paint them. Allow paint time to dry.
6. Carefully remove the taped cardstock Christmas tree from the front of the greeting card to reveal the reverse fingerprint Christmas tree card.
7. Use a glue stick to attach the Christmas tree that you removed to another blank greeting card. This will create two fingerprint Christmas tree cards, a positive fingerprint Christmas tree card, and a negative fingerprint Christmas tree card.
8. Allow cards to dry before writing a greeting in each.
9. Send off positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree cards to family and friends.
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Homemade Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards
Make some fingerprint Christmas cards to send out to friends and family today.
After completing your reverse fingerprint Christmas cards you will have two cards to give to friends and family, a positive and a negative fingerprint Christmas tree card. Gift one to grandma and one to grandpa so they can hang and frame them together as a set!
You might also like to make Watercolor Tree Christmas Cards, and don’t forget to have a look at this awesome collection of fun family Christmas traditions that make the holidays magical.
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These turned out beautifully. Thank you for joining in with our kid-made Christmas Card Series
Thanks Jen! We had a lovely time making them. Thank you for hosting… so many beautiful kid-made Christmas card ideas!
I love these cards, such a neat idea & perfect for all ages to create ♥
Thanks Catherine! So glad you like them 🙂
I know a few little fingers who would love this idea!
My daughter’s fingers sure did!