{"id":4857,"date":"2009-09-18T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T04:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:37:48","slug":"fall-fingerprint-craft-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/09\/18\/fall-fingerprint-craft-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Fingerprint Craft Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bean and I did a craft suggested at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allkidsnetwork.com\/crafts\/fall\/fall-fingerprint-tree.asp\">All Kids Network<\/a>. Because I couldn&#8217;t get her to splay her fingers when I traced her hand, the branches were a bit lumped together. She has the tiniest hands and arms. <\/p>\n<p>I set up the picture by gluing construction paper to the white paper and then clipped that to her easel. I put a small dab of red, orange, and yellow paint on a paper plate, and she went to town. She started out doing the fingerprint (a dab here and there) and then her exuberance took over. She said she was painting leaves, and then she swooped her hands up and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m painting a girl. She likes the leaves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great messy outdoor fun on a hot (95 degree) afternoon!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3932629337\/\" title=\"hand-traced trees &amp; finger paint by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2627\/3932629337_f15007f56f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"hand-traced trees &amp; finger paint\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bean and I did a craft suggested at the All Kids Network. Because I couldn&#8217;t get her to splay her fingers when I traced her hand, the branches were a bit lumped together. She has the tiniest hands and arms. I set up the picture by gluing construction paper to the white paper and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,34,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13627,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/13627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}