Here’s a quick and easy finger print Christmas card craft idea kids (or adults) can make at home or in the classroom! (First published November 6, 2016; this post is updated and republished to improve the content.)
Make one fingerprint Christmas tree craft with children’s little fingers and get two fingerprint Christmas tree cards with this easy Christmas card craft idea. In other words, you will have two fingerprint tree cards when you make one reverse fingerprint Christmas tree card craft. A positive and a negative fingerprint card!
These simple Christmas cards are an easy Christmas craft and holiday decoration that kids and adults can make. For more handmade Christmas cards and craft ideas, look at this fantastic list of keepsake Christmas craft ideas.
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Homemade Christmas Cards Make a Great DIY Gift Idea
Turn positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree cards into a keepsake gift by sending one fingerprint Christmas tree to Grandma and the other to Grandpa. They will have a set of fingerprint trees they can frame and hang as keepsake Christmas decorations. Or, put them in a nice frame to hang on your wall for a lovely homemade fingerprint Christmas tree craft to add to your festive holiday DIY decor.
Family and friends love keepsake Christmas cards made by children. You might also enjoy making fingerprint lights, Christmas cards, and watercolor Christmas tree cards. Each of these card craft ideas can be transformed into Christmas gifts from the kids.
How to Make Positive and Negative Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards
The fingerprint Christmas craft tutorial below will show you step-by-step instructions on how to make a card. Make fingerprint Christmas cards with kids in the classroom to send home with your students for their parents.
Or spend time with children over the winter break, making DIY fingerprint Christmas tree cards. 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 kids can help with cutting, tracing, and fingerprint art.
Pair 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. For even more fun things to do in the days leading up to Christmas, look at this list of family Christmas Traditions.
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DIY Fingerprint Christmas Tree Card Materials
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- Tempura paint (We used blue, green, and red paint to make the single-color Christmas tree cards and a mixture of yellow and pink glitter paint to make the mixed-color fingerprint cards shown in the photographs.
- Alternatively, you can use fingerprint ink pads instead of tempura paint or white paint to stamp fingerprints on colored blank greeting cards instead of the blank white cards recommended on the list below.)
- Blank white greeting cards with envelopes
- Christmas tree cookie cutter or FREE Christmas tree art printable templates
- Cardstock
- Painters tape
- Glue stick
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Little fingers or thumbs to stamp prints.
- Alternatively, you can use pencil eraser tips, cotton swabs, solid tempera paint pens, or a paintbrush to stamp or paint DIY Christmas cards like those in the photographs below.
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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 crafts:
1. Get Christmas tree art templates.
- First, get a Christmas tree cookie cutter or download Christmas tree templates onto cardstock.
- Next, trace a Christmas tree-shaped cookie cutter or print Christmas tree shape templates onto sheets of cardstock. (Each tree template will make two fingerprint Christmas cards.)
- Finally, cut out Christmas tree templates.
2. Tape the Christmas tree Shaped template onto a blank greeting card.
- Next, use painter’s tape to attach each Christmas tree art template 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.
3. Use fingertips, or an alternative, to paint Christmas trees.
- Invite children to paint the cards with the Christmas tree taped to the front in the color(s) of choice.
- Encourage them to stamp their fingerprints onto the printable template using the tempera paint color of choice.
- Alternatively, you can paint them with pencil eraser tips, cotton swabs, solid tempera paint pens, or a paintbrush.
- Please allow the paint plenty of time to dry before moving on to the next step in this fun Christmas craft project.
4. Carefully remove the painted Christmas tree templates 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.
5. Glue each painted Christmas tree template to another blank greeting card.
- Use a glue stick to attach the Christmas tree you removed to another blank greeting card.
- This will create the second Christmas tree card, the positive fingerprint Christmas tree card.
- In other words, when you are done with this fingerprint Christmas craft, you will have made two cards: A negative and a positive fingerprint Christmas tree card, as shown in the photograph of the fingerprint Christmas tree made with red paint and the finger print Christmas card with green paint below.
6. Write Holiday Greetings on each card.
- Write a Christmas greeting inside of the card.
- Continue writing inside the cards until you have personalized greetings inside each homemade fingerprint tree card.
7. Send fingerprint Christmas cards to family and friends.
- If you make fingerprint Christmas cards in the classroom with students, send them home to give to parents.
- And if you make homemade positive and negative fingerprint Christmas tree cards at home, send them 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 beautiful cards to give to friends and family. A negative and a positive fingerprint Christmas tree card. This simple DIY Christmas project is a fun fingerprint Christmas tree craft for kids and adults of all ages. Make fingerprint Christmas cards with this easy craft tutorial to send to friends and family today. You might also enjoy this list of homemade Christmas ornaments.
You might also like to make Watercolor Tree Christmas Cards. Don’t forget to look at this extraordinary collection of fun family Christmas traditions to make your holidays even more magical.
For more gift ideas, check out our Ultimate Family Gift Guide with DIY and readymade ideas for kids, moms, dads, and grandparents! Or look at this fantastic list of homemade gifts kids can make for parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends. Merry Christmas!
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Jen Walshaw says
These turned out beautifully. Thank you for joining in with our kid-made Christmas Card Series
nell says
Thanks Jen! We had a lovely time making them. Thank you for hosting… so many beautiful kid-made Christmas card ideas!
Catherine says
I love these cards, such a neat idea & perfect for all ages to create ♥
nell says
Thanks Catherine! So glad you like them 🙂
Julie says
I know a few little fingers who would love this idea!
nell says
My daughter’s fingers sure did!
Nell Regan M.A. says
Thanks, Hermione! I’m so glad that you like these fingerprint Christmas cards and hope that the people you make them for do as well. Merry Christmas!