Do your kids send thank you cards? The MiniMad’s send thank you cards they have made every year. Last year it was thumbprint Robin thank you cards, this year it is fingerprint monster thank you cards.
We love giving fingerprint monster cards as they encourage people to get creative and add their own monsters to the blank fingerprints. Plus these are easy to make, if you have smaller children they can just do the fingerprinting and you can add the rest.
How to make fingerprint monster thankyou cards
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Materials:
- Ink pads or fingerpaint
- Blank cards
- Fine tipped felt pen
We use whatever card we have, this was A4 folded in half. Then the boys stick their fingerprints all over the card.
I am slowly learning to sit on my hands and let them so the crating directly less and letting them express their creativity. This might not make for perfect cards, but it does make for totally kid made ones that they are so proud of.
Them they turn some of their fingerprints into monsters, but you could turn them into pretty much anything.
Make sure that you leave some blank for the recipient to complete though!
As these are thank you cards, Maxi chose to write Many Thanks on the top, but this is where you can add your greeting.
I have a great fingerprint art Pinterest board for inspiration.
Follow Jen Walshaw’s board Fingerprint art on Pinterest.
What a cool idea, I’ve never seen anything like this before! I was looking for coloured ink pads a while ago and never found any, I could have done with this post back then 😛
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I love these! What a great idea!
Love it, what a cute way to say thank you!
Such a great idea Jen. They look wonderful x
Oh wow what a lovely thoughtful thing to do x
These are just so adorable and my boys do need to make thank you cards. Thanks for sharing.
They would be really great for Easter cards too!
Love these! So creative as always.
Oh I love these, thanks so much for sharing – perfect timing for us as tomorrow is THE day. And we got a fingerprint set for Christmas, so we’re all sorted! Fab! x
I love these as they can be as simple or as complicated as you like.
Fab idea
I think it’s so important for kids to send thank you cards and this is a great idea for little ones who can’t write their own. My three-year-old would love the monster finger tips.
Loving those – very simple and they are easy to customise.
These are just supper cool. I love ’em. stumbled and pinned
I absolutely love these, brilliant! Thank you notes are so important.
So incredibly cute! My little boy would love it. Thanks for sharing. Pinned!
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This is such a cute idea! I’m pinning it to do when my daughter gets old enough!
Love this idea, so creative and cute but easy to do too 🙂 Thank you for sharing with Frugal Family – don’t forget to link up another post next Thursday! xx
I love this – personalised cards like this are so much fun! Thank you for joining in with the #frugalfamilylinky
These are very cute and easy to make too. Thank you for linking up with #weloveweekends
these are genius, I may copy the idea for our activity hour hhere. Great idea, could make some fun animals with them too, thanks for the idea.
What a fun and creative idea!
Definitely have to try it with our family.
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Adorable!! Thanks for sharing this on the Virtual Fridge – it’s a great idea and very simple.
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