Peas in a Pod Fingerprint Craft for Kids

Celebrate fresh garden veggies like peas with this super cute, fun-to-make peas in a pod craft for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students. This adorable Fingerprint Craft is a great spring craft for kids to make with their own fingers for a spring theme or a garden theme too!

Peas in a pod craft for toddlers

Using your fingers to create art is quite engaging for most children. Children love to feel the paint on their fingers. A little messy paint play provides a great sensory experience. Kids love to explore the pictures that result from applying the paint to paper! Fingerprint crafts are no exception. Moreover, fingerprint crafts provide a bit of nostalgia once the kiddos have grown. Grab the paint, yarn and paper and get a teeny bit messy. The children will love it! This peas in a pod craft for toddlers is such a cute peapod craft to make as a spring art project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders.

Fingerprint Craft

Green construction paper
White paper
Scissors
Green paint
Small dowels or skewers
Yarn in various shades of green
White Glue

Grab your white paper and lay it flat. Use the white glue to create the dowel (or skewer) trellis for the peapods. Apply the glue in three straight lines starting from a point at the top of the paper. Lay the dowels atop the glue. Next use the glue to create pea vines. Simply, squeeze the glue bottle over the trellis, creating curvy lines of glue going up and down the trellis. Add the various shades of green yarn to the glue.

Pea Craft

Fold the green paper over itself about .5 inches. Use this folded piece to cut out the peapods. You will need to cut the peapods proportionally to your child’s finger. Make sure there is plenty of space to add the “peas”.

Spring Craft for Kids

Open each pod and lay them out for your child to apply their fingerprint peas. Have each child dip their finger in paint (just a little with do) and press down on the peapod. You can add several peas to one pod!

Once the fingerprint peas have dried, glue the pods to the vines. To do so, add a little blob of glue near the yarn and apply the pod, one side down. Gluing the pods in this manner will allow the pod to look closed. You and your kids will have fun opening the pods to see the tiny fingerprints peas inside.

Fun Preschool Crafts

If you liked this craft, please check out these other fun crafts for pre k, toddler, and preschool age students

Printable Letter Crafts from A to Z
Alphabet Paper Plate Crafts
A to Z Handprint Alphabet Crafts
3 Sister Planting Craft
31 August Crafts for Kids
Avocado Dough
Fingerprint Counting Activity (with free printables)
Shape Crafts for Kids
Potato Stamped Tomatoes
Tissue Paper Butterfly Craft

Summer Fun

Looking for more outdoor activities for kids and things to do in the summer? Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids will love these fun ideas to keep them busy all summer long: