If you want to create creative drawings and pictures, you don't necessarily have to have a great talent for drawing. If your eyes are widening now and you don't really want to believe in it, then just look at what great motifs you can get when you create pictures with fingerprints. If you would also like to design fingerprint pictures, you can get some inspiration thanks to the following gallery. Even beginners can create unique wall decorations or make greeting cards and other things using the following ideas.
Create beautiful fingerprint images using templates
Ready-made templates are often used for fingerprint images, i.e. printed motifs that are then individually designed. This is also the case with this original idea with a fish pond. The prints represent the fish and the water lilies. The motifs on the templates themselves can also be colored.
The fingerprint tree
If you want to decorate a tree, you can create an ordinary summer crown in shades of green, or you can use colorful autumn colors for an autumnal motif, green and white or pink for a spring tree, or snowflakes and snow for a winter tree. The crown doesn't necessarily have to be round. This heart shape is also very likeable.
The fingerprint tree is very popular for weddings and similar celebrations. In this case, the idea for a wedding replaces the guest book, so to speak. Each of the guests adds a print to the tree and can also write their name under their print if they wish. So painting fingerprint pictures for different occasions is a great memory. But other motif templates are also suitable, as you will see below.
To create the perfect souvenir for this unforgettable day for the bride and groom, you first need a canvas printed with the guests' fingerprints and, of course, watercolor. Think carefully about what color composition you want to create and choose the appropriate colors so that the groom's side, the bride's side and all your mutual friends can leave their fingerprints with different colors. Great pictures are created with the colors blue, pink and orange, for example. If necessary, you may need felt-tip pens in matching colors for the signatures. Also get test paper to make the first print on paper and the second on canvas. For this great craft project you will also need a sponge so that guests can wet their fingers and then of course paper and wet wipes to clean dirty fingers. A short introduction to what the guests have to do to ensure a perfect result would perhaps be very helpful.
It doesn't necessarily have to be the entire tree. Some branches and twigs in the picture also look very pretty, regardless of whether you decorate them with flowers or leaves. Feel free to combine fingerprints and thumbprints to create elements of different sizes. Experiment with the print and see how you can change the shapes.
Balloons made from prints
Here, as promised, an alternative to the tree motif. Imprints are also often used to design balloons. Here the balloons are held with any other motif. In this case it's a giraffe. Such fingerprint pictures are great for babies. Whether it's a birth or a baptism, it doesn't matter. And the finished picture can then decorate the children's room.
You can see here again that the fingerprint images can be very diverse. Balloons were designed again, but this time they are designed by a couple on a bicycle. The great thing about balloons is that you can work with any color. Different nuances of a color like here or a few contrasting colors are suitable, but a colorful picture can also be created.
Dandelion
Ideas with dandelions are no less popular and are the perfect decoration for the walls of various rooms. You can print out the dandelion or paint it yourself, which is not difficult at all. Then create some fingerprints on the flower itself and some that fly away. The picture looks very romantic and makes you dream and relax.
Any variant of images can also be painted on a fingerprint canvas. The example above again shows a printed dandelion whose existing seeds were additionally decorated with colored fingerprints. Instead of one color, a colorful design was chosen that is no less attractive, but even looks particularly cheerful.
Colorful ideas for children
You can let your imagination run wild if you simply create fingerprint images as you wish. It doesn't have to be a specific motif either. The picture above, for example, consists simply of several colorful fingerprints created at approximately equal distances on a piece of paper. The end result is abstract and modern at the same time.
Smaller pictures such as animals can be made quickly and can be used for different occasions and purposes. Their small size makes them very practical, not just for pictures, for example. They can also be used to design greeting cards or make bookmarks that can then be given as gifts.
In principle, any animal can be designed this way. Above you can see some examples of animals that can be made from one or more prints with the help of a few more lines and circles. In general, the fingerprints can be wonderfully combined with other pens to create the desired motif. You will also find this out below.
The fingerprint pictures with cute animal figures work very easily. First, your child has to dip the brush in water, rub the edge well and pick up the desired color. Help your child apply the paint thinly and press it onto the sheet of paper provided. Once the paint has already dried, the animal in question can be brought to life.
A face must then also have eyes, nose, mouth, ears and hair. If the small fingerprint represents a body, the head, arms and legs must also be drawn. If the fingerprint creates a bee, the children can, with your support, paint the antennae, or the beak and wings of a bird, etc. The selection of animals that can be created with fingerprints is really almost endless. For example, you are welcome to depict your pet, the neighbor's dog or perhaps a snail that you found during a walk. Be inspired by the surrounding nature.
The children are also amazed by all kinds of vehicles. The little boys in particular are fascinated by cars, trains, helicopters and airplanes. Just like animals, an infinite number of vehicles can be recorded on paper using fingerprints. Your child can of course decide which vehicle to create. A fire engine, hot air balloon or tractor, designing these cute vehicles will undoubtedly bring great joy to your children. And as you can see, it just takes a bit of imagination and a few strokes to give the figures a realistic shape.
A colorful string of lights is also particularly easy to make. And yet a picture can make you something special. First, use a felt-tip pen, black ballpoint pen or metallic paint to paint a cable on the desired spot on the paper or canvas and add the sockets in a spiral shape. You can then paint the fingerprints on it.
To create more complicated motifs, you can also use stencils that you simply place on the sheet of paper and then fill in with fingerprints. We find the idea above, which consists of three silhouettes of a crow, particularly interesting. Start with one color. After this has dried, you can add the second color and then the third.
Children can of course also make fingerprint pictures because they are so easy to make. The prints can be used for different dot patterns, like in this example to create a rainbow. Are you already amazed at how many different motifs can be created using just prints? With a little imagination anything is possible!
You can create a larger heart from several impressions. To simplify the task, you can first draw the outline of the heart and then fill it in with the prints. Hearts are the perfect motifs for Valentine's Day, but also for Mother's DayFather's Day. Make each parent happy by creating a picture with the children.
Whether fingerprint pictures, other pictures or photos, you can also decorate your works of art and wall decorations with a self-designed picture frame. Simply make a mural with a matching frame. For example, you can create a special frame with matching colors for each season and make your print images stand out even better.
Pictures with trees and flowers
If you want to paint a tree on canvas, you can also choose one of these ideas. These are again the four seasons, which were implemented differently in both examples. On the left, an extra tree was designed on four canvases, while in the example on the right, a tree was simply divided into four. The trunk also originally consists of the outline of a child's hand.
Use children's fingerprints to paint pretty flowers. Here too, a wide variety of variants can be implemented. The petals can be made up of individual dots or given another interesting shape by simply using more than one imprint for each flower. Create a meadow with sun, clouds or birds.
The flowers can also be designed in one color like here or colorful like above. Additionally, anything that isn't fingerprints was painted with either felt-tip pens or crayons. Children can also make their parents or grandparents happy with such pictures and give them a gift for a specific occasion or simply for no reason.
The cute meadow flowers are rather minimalist, but just as beautiful. First the colorful fingerprints are pressed onto the leaf and then the petals are added in different variations, which you can draw with a thin pen. Faces can also be painted if desired. This is how you can create a pretty flower meadow.
Popular motifs for Christmas
Christmas pictures can also be taken. For example, this idea with Santa Claus in a sleigh and his reindeer is very cute. The picture mainly consists of prints. These were then equipped with a felt-tip pen with additional elements that gave the prints the desired look.
Christmas elves are also a cheerful motif that you can use to decorate the walls or greeting cards at Christmas time. Make the body from a thumbprint and the head from another finger. You can then use the same paints to paint hats. You can then use a black felt-tip pen to draw arms, legs, faces and other things.
Great ideas for winter are also those with snowmen. It's best to combine several in one picture, which you can decorate with different hats and colors. Finally, you can also create a winter landscape with a base of white paint and white dots representing snowflakes.
Or how about gingerbread men for Christmas and Advent? For a male you need six prints each in brown color. Then let them dry thoroughly. You can then use a brush to add patterns, buttons and bows. A Santa Claus hat is also suitable for decorating the gingerbread.
Angels are not only suitable for the Christmas season, but can also be used for the birth of a baby or for a baptism. In this case, blue and pink or light green and yellow are good color choices. The colors gold, silver and the combination of green and red are suitable for Christmas angels. Don't forget the halo too!
Easter pictures with fingerprints
How about surprising your relatives and friends with fingerprint pictures for Easter, which can also be given as a gift in the form of a greeting card. The shape of the prints is perfect for painting Easter eggs. You can then decorate the print with patterns. The Easter bunny is also quick to make and can be combined with other Easter motifs.
Here you can see up close how you can design a bunny. To make an impression, simply paint the ears, face, legs and tail. Chicks are also suitable for Easter. Yellow prints are simply decorated with beaks, eyes, legs and wings and can also be combined with other Easter motifs. If the cute Easter motifs are already ready, you can personalize the sweet greeting card with a few lines, put it in a pretty envelope and make your family or friends happy.
A fun activity for the little ones
The fingerprint pictures are not only incredibly fun for children, they also promote the development of your offspring. This great leisure activity sharpens children's senses and gives them a great opportunity to be creative. Depending on the age of the child, you can ask the children to tell you the colors. It's best to let the little ones decide for themselves which colors to use for the great works of art. This creates images that completely match the ideas of your loved ones. The children immediately feel confident and capable. Sometimes they just start designing the fingerprint images around the print without knowing what will come of it. Such unusual fingerprint motifs are unique and very funny. They are also a great memory of childhood that will put a smile on your face years later. At a children's birthday or a children's party, the idea of creating colorful pictures is very well received. The children learn in a pleasant, playful way what teamwork is and learn to appreciate the work of other children.
