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Handprint - Dove (Unity) Wreath

This wreath symbolizes cultural unity.  You can adjust the handprint colors for different occasions (for example, you may wish to use handprints in different shades of brown for Black History Month)

Materials:

  • paint in various skin-tone colors.  If you have brown, yellow, red and white you can mix your own colors.  Children enjoy experimenting with mixing colors.  Try these combinations
    • small amount of red + small amount of yellow yellow + white
    • brown + white
    • yellow + small amount of brown
        
  • Paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Instructions:

  • Make between 9 and 12 handprints in various skin tone colors by dipping hand in paint and stamping it on the paper.
      
  • Let dry
      
  • DOVE:  Trace your hand with the thumb extended and 4 fingers close together onto the center of a piece of white paper.
      
    • Glue on a beak from orange construction paper or draw one on with orange marker.
        
    • Draw on a wing and an eye with black pencil crayon or marker
        
  • Cut out the skin tone handprints and glue them together in a circle to form a wreath.
      
  • Glue the dove onto the back of the wreath (so the wreath acts like a picture frame).  Trim the edges of the paper the dove is on as necessary

 

Printable version of these instructions