Some of you have tradition-related goals for this year. I love that. It’s one of my goals as well. Thought I’d share one of our favorite family traditions, which we started when Porter was a baby. For each child’s birthday we do handprints on canvas. This is Porter’s collection.
How to do it: Paint the base first (regular acrylic paint that you can find at the craft store), then paint his/her hand with a different color of paint. Very carefully help them press their hand down on the canvas, pressing on each part of the hand and every finger. Then on the count of three, we lift the hand off the canvas quickly – like taking off a bandaid. Of course it’s much easier as your kids get older. Trying to get a one-year-old to spread their fingers, etc. is no easy task.
I totally have a vision of this collage of handprints on our kids’ walls when they’re older. For now, we have them on a shelf in the playroom and they’re seriously one of my very favorite treasures.
PS – Those little easels (holding some of Porter’s art below the handprints) are from Michael’s. Check your local craft store in the picture/frame/art/easel department.
Added note: While the paint is already on the child’s hand, have them do a few more handprints on cardstock so that you have that for their scrapbook, or the family scrapbook, or who knows what you might want it for. But you can’t go back and do handprints from when they’re younger.
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I love this idea! My kids are 5 & 6, but we’ll be doing this on their birthdays from now on!!!
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This was the best idea, and now it is our family tradition too. I get so many comments about the hand prints and am so happy that I have them now!
I do this yearly on my red velvet Xmas tree skirt. The handprints of both boys are done in gold glitter paint. It is so much fun to get it out yearly and see how much larger their hands have become.
I’ve done that with my son but not nearly as consistently as you have. The best was making handprint turkeys (draw a beak, comb, and legs) for Thanksgiving cards when he was 5 months old. Originals went in the scrapbook, copies were made for cards.
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Such a great idea. I have a 9 week old baby and plan to do this on his b-days!
Love this idea! Tried it last weekend, but it was a paint disaster with my one year old!! She doesn’t spread her fingers out enough so I cannot put her print on the canvas. Any ideas on how to do this with a one year old?
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