finger painting

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Recent Examples of finger painting For toddlers and preschoolers, focus on tactile or sensory exploration activities like finger painting with mud, stamping with leaves, or drawing in the dirt with sticks. Dr. Pooja Sarin Tandon, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025 Rosewood Explorers is a clubhouse with supervised activities, such as sandcastle building, kite flying, pizza making, finger painting, and marching in a Junkanoo parade. Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025 Do something fun and silly—like finger painting or completing a puzzle. Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 This finger painting does not resemble me. Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 22 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for finger painting
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Noun
  • But the paintings are not just larger versions of the drawings.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Green screens, reenactments and, in the case of the two boys, drawings, offered ways to create material while away from home.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His portraits poked a hole into the romantic mythology of the American West, telling instead a story of poverty and struggle.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • One of the most moving stories in the film is the portrait of a father and son bonding over their love of geek culture.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In her TikTok video, Campbell threw in a crossword book, camera, watercolor set, paper planner, and knitting supplies.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But the pink watercolor version is on sale for Prime Day and would pair well with nude heels.
    Ivy Odom, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kylie, 33, chatted with Rudolph, 53, about how athletes make the best hosts for the long-running sketch comedy show.
    Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The sketches by Italian artist Marcello Dudovich that are featured in another window once adorned the stores and offices of Loro Piana, and were collected by the family.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a photo posted to her own Instagram, the proud mom showed off a silhouette of her bare baby bump in a mirror selfie.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Fashionistas have been swapping their skinny jeans for this roomier, more relaxed fit, but even the most trend-savvy shoppers are still hesitant to try the polarizing silhouette for themselves.
    Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best-known is folk icon La Calavera Catrina, a zinc etching of a smiling skeleton wearing an oversize hat topped with features and flowers, created by José Guadalupe Posada in the early 1900s.
    Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
  • According to Stein, the acid can eat away at the stone’s finish and cause dull spots or etching.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The brand canceled the show indefinitely in 2019 amid controversy surrounding representation and inclusivity.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The goal is to partner with the festival to create a dedicated AZ On the Rise stage, addressing what this coalition feels is a lack of sufficient homegrown representation at the three-day festival.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025

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