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Kids Craft – Thumbprint Fish

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This Fish thumbprint kids craft is a great kid art activity lesson. You can use this fish thumbprint craft to create a whole series of Ocean creatures.

 

Crab Thumbprint Craft

Jellyfish Thumbprint Craft

Turtle Thumbprint Craft

 

Use the images below to guide you on how to make your thumbprint ocean creature. For younger children, you can use a pencil to pre-draw the lines in and allow them to trace your pencil markings to finish off their thumbprint project.

 

Have you ever wondered why kids do fingerpainting or in this case Thumb painting? Firstly it helps with their hand/eye coordination and it uses one of the five senses making it the perfect activity for sensory play. Messy play like finger painting is important to every child’s development and it’s a developmental milestone that is starting to be overlooked as more kids turn to technology-based play. physically It strengthens the hand, thumb and fingers which aids with fine motor skills.

Fish Instructions:

  1. Make a horizontal (sideways) thumbprint in the color of your choice.
  2. Add a squiggly fin to the top.
  3. Add a squiggly fin to the bottom.
  4. Add a larger fin to the back.
  5. Draw an eye and a smile.
  6. Add small ‘<’ shapes for fins on the side.

 

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You probably know by now if you’re a regular reader (and if you’re not, welcome!) that I love a knitting pattern that’s a little silly or a little different from the usual. Classic patterns are great, too, but sometimes you just want to make something with a bit of whimsy. And when it’s super functional, too, that’s even better.

That’s the case with the Bananen-Socken pattern from Susanne Shahin. These banana socks are one of those patterns no one seems to be totally sure where it came from, and this free pattern on Ravelry explains how she makes them based on how she learned it.

It’s a sock that’s curved and when not on a foot it looks rather like a banana. There’s no heel, and you can use whatever number of stitches you need to make it fit your foot. If you’ve knit enough socks to know how many stitches you like you can just use that number, or the pattern notes include sizing charts to help. (It needs to be multiples of 2 for the ribbing.)

After working a traditional cuff, the body is made with ribbing on the back and welts (or what the pattern calls horizontal ribbing) on the front, which is what gives it the curved shape. There’s no heel, but there is toe shaping, but for the leg and the foot you just keep working the same pattern as long as you like.

I’m a little skeptical about how these socks will feel with ribbing on the bottom of the foot, but I’m definitely intrigued and will probably give them a try. 

The pattern notes are available on Ravelry in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. If you head to the pattern page you can see a photo of what it looks like on a foot, and it just looks like a normal sock.

Have you ever knit banana socks or do you want to now? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo: Susanne Shahin]