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Even more upsettingly, she encourages his poor mother to dance about and do finger-painting — as if Constance Orser weren’t a woman whose principal delight was completing the Sunday crossword in The New York Times.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

It was as if his brain was broken, and he went from writing term papers analyzing Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" to finger-painting.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2022

People talk about the way van Gogh used unmixed colors squeezed straight from the tube, as if he were a pure-hearted child blissfully finger-painting the hours away.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2019

Camp Bestival gets a finger-painting iPad app for kids Camp Bestival is one of the most family-friendly music festivals in the UK, and its new iPad is similarly accessible to youngsters.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

For the hours that Gogol is at nursery school, finger-painting and learning the English alphabet, Ashima is despondent, unaccustomed, all over again, to being on her own.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri