How to Use finger painting in a Sentence
finger painting
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Paw and nose prints cover the lower half of the glass doors like finger paintings.
—Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 6 June 2019
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And with a little more finger painting and a spray of perfume by Chanel, González is off.
—Kate Branch, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2018
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The family, along with their daughter Kensie, 4, and the rest of the cast, spent the day finger painting and opening presents at the party.
—Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2018
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What did finger painting or building blocks have to do with the questions that haunted me?
—Pamela Jane Bell, WSJ, 13 May 2018
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Random works of a kindergartner’s finger painting are more pleasing to the eye.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
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All the while, parents should remain open-minded to other interests, from finger painting to simply playing in the mud.
—Mary Kearl, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2021
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The child, who lived in a world with that name carefully written into her clothes, scrawled on the finger paintings still hanging on the refrigerator, paused, then leaped back.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
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On the walls were portraits of Jesus, graduation photos, and finger paintings.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
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Decorate bookmarks, do some finger painting or make jellyfish out of paper bowls and yarn.
—Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
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As a child, Katie Flores always seemed to gravitate toward finger painting.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
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For the images on view at Transformer Station, Soren used a large format, 8x10-inch camera to photograph iPad screens under raking light that highlights the marks left on the glassy surface like those in a child’s finger painting.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2019
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For instance, these missing-finger paintings show up even in warmer climates where people really shouldn’t be suffering from frostbite.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2018
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The book is messy as hell: full of insipid platitudes, trite homilies, and self-regarding detours delivered with the assurance of a man who fully expects to see his childhood finger paintings in a museum someday.
—Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
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The lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center receive intellectual stimulation each week through finger painting sessions, according to Marron.
—Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
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Tutorials include cherry blossom finger paintings and monoprinting.
—Nicole Ludden, azcentral, 20 May 2020
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