Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards and Craft Idea

Here’s a quick and easy fingerprint Christmas card that kids can make!

You will get two fingerprint tree cards when you make one reverse fingerprint Christmas tree card. A positive and a negative fingerprint card–homemade Christmas crafts and decorations 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. They will end up with a set of fingerprint trees that they can frame and hang as a Christmas decoration! Or, get a nice frame and hang it on your wall for a lovely homemade fingerprint Christmas tree craft.

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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 can trace and use scissors well enough to cut out Christmas trees, they can help with every step of this Christmas card-making activity. Toddlers and preschoolers can help by creating art with their fingertips and gluing the trees to the blank cards, while older children can help with cutting, tracing, and fingerprint art.

Pair these homemade Christmas tree cards with fingerprint art magnets for an excellent homemade gift from the kids. For more gift ideas, look at Christmas gifts kids can make. And, you might also enjoy this list of homemade Christmas ornaments.

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Fingerprint Christmas Tree Card Materials

• Tempura paint
• Blank Greeting Cards & Envelopes
• Christmas Tree Cookie Cutter or FREE Christmas Tree Art Templates
• Cardstock
• Painters Tape
• Glue Stick
• Pencil
• Children’s scissors

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Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards Craft Tutorial

Follow the easy step-by-step instructions below to make positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree craft:

Step 1 – Create Christmas Tree Art Templates

• First, get out your Christmas tree cookie cutter or download Christmas tree templates onto cardstock.
• Next, trace the cookie-cutter or print templates onto sheets of cardstock. Each tree template will make two fingerprint Christmas cards.
• Finally, cut out Christmas tree templates.

Step 2 – Tape Christmas Tree Template to Blank Greeting Card

• Next, use painter’s tape to attach each of the Christmas tree art templates to the front of a blank greeting card as shown in the photo below. As a reminder, one template will make two cards. Repeat until each Christmas tree template is attached to a single card.

Step 3 – Use Fingers, or an alternative, to paint Christmas Trees

• Invite children to paint the cards with the Christmas tree taped to the front with their fingerprints using tempera paint color (or colors) of choice.
• Alternatively, you can also use pencil eraser tips, cotton swabs, or Kwik Stix to paint them.
• Please allow the paint pleanty of time to dry before moving on to the next step in this fun Christmas craft project.

Step 4 – Carefully REmove painted Christmas Trees From Each Card

• Carefully remove the cardstock Christmas tree taped to the front of each greeting card to reveal the first Christmas tree card–the reverse fingerprint Christmas tree card.

STep 5 – Glue Painted Christmas Tree Template to another Blank Card

• Use a glue stick to attach the Christmas tree that you removed to another blank greeting card.
• This will create the second Christmas tree card–a positive fingerprint Christmas tree card. Once this step is complete you will have made two cards–a postive and a negative fingerprint Christmas tree card.

Step 6 – Write Holiday Greetings in Each Card

Write a Christmas greeting in each of the homemade fingerprint tree cards.

Step 7 – Send Fingerprint Christmas Cards to Family and Friends

Send the homemade positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree cards you make to family and friends with holiday tidings and cheer.

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Homemade Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards

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. A fun fingerprint Christmas tree craft for kids and adults of all ages. Make some fingerprint Christmas cards with this easy craft tutorial to send out to friends and family today.

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