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Sent in by: Emily of Wilbraham, MA
Print and finger it out! Be a part of another live international science experiment.
What do you always have but always leave behind? Your fingerprints! No two fingerprints are exactly alike. What do you fingerprints look like?
- Take a pencil and scribble on a piece of paper until you have a nice big black mark.
- Then rub your index finger in the mark. Your index finger is the one next to your thumb.
- Now get some tape. The best tape to use is called transparent tape or utility tape. Put a piece of it over your finger, press down, and pull it off.
- Then put the tape on a piece of paper. Now you can see your fingerprint.

Amanda, age 10 of Keene, NH wrote:
my finger is a arch.
Andrew, age 5 of Marina, CA wrote:
First, we made our finger prints and they were black. Then, we put them on a piece of tape. Finally, we saw lots of curvy lines.
Malique, age 12 of Fall River, MA wrote:
I looked at my fingerprints and I think, there all loops. Pretty weird.
Bridget, age 11 of Fort Worth, TX wrote:
I was doing an experment by a book saying to mkae fingerprints so I did and next thing i`m taking everyone fingerprints home and at school.
Monti, age 12 of Bronx, NY wrote:
i found out mii finger print. thats so cool.
Desirae, age 12 of Indianapoils, IN wrote:
my finger print look different. it was whirl.
Ryan, age 13 of Indianapolis, IN wrote:
my finger print is a whorl.
Keyaira, age 13 of Indianapolis, IN wrote:
my fingerprints was a whorl.
Dylan of Altamonte Springs, FL wrote:
I think it was really cool to be able to fingerprint in class.
Nohely, age 13 of TX wrote:
the finger prints printed on the paper.
Sierra, age 9 of Chambersburg, PA wrote:
that my fingerprints were a loop.
Sydney, age 10 of Pittsburgh, PA wrote:
Fingers were loops and whorls. Toes were 4 loops and 1 arch.
Danish, age 7 of Lawrenceville wrote:
It had circles.
Janelle, age 7 of Bronx, NY wrote:
mine was different then I thought.
Danielle, age 7 of Marshall, MI wrote:
I have a toe print. the lines go up and down instead of across like on my fingers.
Alexis, age 15 of Murrieta, CA wrote:
my left finger and my right finger look like Wholrs fingerprint.
Bianca of Palm Beach Gardens, FL wrote:
I have this for a project, and it seems really cool. Most of my family's fingerprints are the same.
Molly of Birmingham wrote:
my finger print looked like a whorl I think.
Katie, age 9 of Ellicott City, MD wrote:
We took the fingerprints from our family. Every fingerprint of one person is not the same. Some fingerprints have wrinkles so they are harder to read. Sometimes there is a pattern with the same finger on each hand. The loop is the most common in our family. We didn't have a double loop.
Gretchen, age 10 of Davison, MI wrote:
i tried it and it worked I used scotch tape, but it was perfect you could see it clearly. it is amazing what smart people can come up with. I certaintly want to be that kind of a person!
Olivia, age 11 of Arlington, MA wrote:
I decided to test my whole family on their fingerprints. It was interesting to see all of our fingerprints on the same paper!
Justin, age 12 of Miami, FL wrote:
It came out looking like a loop print.
Elliot, age 5 of Fremont, CA wrote:
It was fun. Mine was whorl, my mommy's was same as mine. My daddy was a loop.
Erika, age 11 of Moreno Vally wrote:
I took off the tape and I had a whorl.
Tavannah, age 11 of Chciago, IL wrote:
when I did it I had a loop this waz a fun experiment
Antoinette of Lancaster, TX wrote:
It was pretty while that the print came out the same as mines. My Hypothesis was that I thought that it wasn't going to be true. So I had to test it out
Tavannah, age 11 of Chicago, IL wrote:
myfinger print was a loop
Molly of OH wrote:
I saw my fingerprint so clearly!
Mary, age 13 wrote:
my finger came out as a loop and it looked cool!
Brandon, age 9 of Jamaica wrote:
I did it!!:) and my fingerprint pattern is a loop. It was fun.
Teresa, age 10 of Poughkeepsie, NY wrote:
My index looked like a whorl and so did the other fingers exept the thumb it was a loop zoom did u know that some parents keep their childs fingerprints in case they get lost? I kept mine and also my brothers and sister they looked goood on the refrigerator lol lol lol
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