Fingerprint Art Projects To Increase Creativity

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Each one of us has something different about our fingerprints. Everyone in this world have different and unique fingerprints. Fingerprinting art projects are simply helpful for increasing you child’s creativity. Fingerprinting art projects can just give your child or student an encouragement to explore science. There are some projects that are available for all age groups.

These can teach students in gathering different information, to classify it and analyze it. At the young age, these fingerprinting art projects are helpful in creating awareness among children that all fingerprints are different. Also, fingerprinting helps your pre-school age child to improve developmental skills.  As the age gets older, the complexity and the depth of the projects increase.

However, fingerprinting is an unstructured and relaxation activity for children as well as parents. Working with young children will make them frustration free as the fingerprinting activity is quite enjoyable. Children with different age groups love to create something that is praised and displayed in their homes.

Different materials which are safe for your child are used for fingerprinting projects. Paint and ink like other materials are used. In addition, some fingerprinting projects need permanent markers, color pencils. Also with paint, ink works really well on paper projects. Use of paints on cloth, enamel paints on glass and tempera paint can give better results for paper projects. Care should be taken while choosing ink or paint. Always go for nontoxic and the products that are washable.

Firstly, introduce children to the basic concepts of the fingerprint art. Give those papers and non-toxic stamp pad. Allow them to draw pictures of different animals with their thumbprints and fingerprints. Also you can show them examples that are made by fingerprints.

Fingerprinting Projects For Students

There are various fingerprinting projects for students of Preschool, Elementary school, Middle school and High school. Preschool students are very young aged children. These projects can improve their imagination power. All you need to do is give them the apparatus and tell them to draw various designs and pictures using their thumbprints and fingerprints. Thus, this project will create awareness among them that all the fingerprints are different.

Students going to Elementary school have very strong grasping capacity. Provide these students a piece of construction paper and allow them to make fingerprints of all four fingers and the thumb on one hand. After this, tape these paper pieces to the wall. With magnifying glasses and a print of a fingerprint chart tell them to examine and identify the sets and types of fingerprints according to them. You can tell middle school students to do research on the inheritance of the fingerprint patterns.

Also, introduce the students with the basic knowledge of genetics by allowing them to compare the fingerprints of family members and the relatives. Show them the way of collecting the fingerprints of an entire hand. Provide them the set of fingerprint cards. Allow them to collect their own fingerprints. Also tell them to collect fingerprints of the siblings, parents and friends. They should mark on the back of the paper whether that person is relative or friend or whatever.

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Tell them to classify each type of fingerprint on a separate piece of paper. They should sort out each person. Also tell them to answer the question, do siblings have similar fingerprints and other similar questions. Allow them to calculate the fingerprint percentage and compare. Some fingerprint pairs should be displayed to them to see whether they can guess people that own fingerprints are related or not?

Middle school students should be taught to take good and clear fingerprints and to prepare a card that has all the fingerprints on it. Divide the students in groups and tell them to determine classification system for fingerprints that are based on the fingerprints they’ve taken. You can hold a science fair for elder students. Make a project which compares various fingerprint collection method. Rather, set up a project that is based on the fingerprints collected with a powder or a chemical which shows what different fingerprints look like.

Fingerprinting Applications

Fingerprinting basically plays an important role in identification of people. Fingerprinting studies teaches children how to identify a person by the mark they leave behind showing that every person in the world is unique. These fingerprinting projects require different tools and that depends on the level of the children involved.

Tools For Fingerprinting

First tool required is Index card or Identification card: In the group of younger students, there’s always a possibility of making mistakes as an index card is not made with particular spots for each finger. At the police station, identification cards are used for the official fingerprinting procedures. Id cards have particular spots for the fingers of each hand. Also, many ID cards have spaces for a palm print. Next tool is Ink Pad or Paint: With the use of ink pad or paint, press the fingers into the ink or coat your finger tip with the thin layer of paint. Then place the fingertip on the ID card or index card. Also labeling should be done as left thumb, index, and middle and so on.

Fingerprinting art projects requires an item that is important and has fingerprints on it. For easier identification, you can also tape a copy of a fingerprint. It is an easier method of identification. A glass, painted wood or piece of absorbent paper produces better results of fingerprints.
When fingerprints are on any item to be tested, a powder is lightly sprinkled on the item. The powder used by the students is either bi-chromatic powder, which is used by the professional crime scene investigators, or magnetic powder.

To teach younger students, you can use Chocolate drink mix powder because as these students may to put their fingers in their mouths. When the powder is sifted over the fingerprints, you can lightly blow the excess powder off. After that gently press tape over the fingerprint and lift the fingerprint off the item on a clean white piece of paper very carefully. Also you can compare the lines and swirls with the control fingerprints.