Picassos in the Park: Footprint Birds

This month for Picassos in the Park, momstown Edmonton visited both the Ellerslie Crossing Splash Park and the Elmwood Spray Deck. Both days, we braved a little rain as we painted, laughed, and had fun! For our bird theme, we just had to do a craft that involved feathers and paint! We turned a simple footprint (and hand print in a few cases) into a bird with a few easy steps. But we didn't stop when our birds were complete! No, the kids took their painted feet and did some more painting with them! Luckily for us, we were at a splash park so after painting the kids could go and wash off their feet by playing!

 
Want to create this with your own child? All you need is some construction paper, paint, glitter, glue, googly eyes, orange craft foam (paper would work too), and feathers.
 





How to make your own Footprint Bird:

1. Paint the bottom of your child's foot. On a piece of construction paper, place the foot and press down to create a footprint. Sprinkle glitter on the wet paint.
2. Let dry for a minute or two. Once it's dry-ish, cut around the footprint.
3. Rotate the footprint 180 degrees so that the toes are at the bottom. Glue the footprint onto construction paper.
4. Glue 3 on feathers for the wings and tail. Add on googly eyes.
5. Cut triangle from the orange foam and glue it on for the beak. All done!