This hand craft makes a perfect handprint keepsake!
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Total Time30 minutesmins
Course: Crafts
Servings: 1
Author: LittleCooksReadingBooks.com
Ingredients
1piecewhite construction paper
1piecebrown construction paper
5piecesassorted bright colored construction paper
Washable paintscolor(s of choice)
Poemabove printed on white paper from computer or written by child
Scissors
Glue
Instructions
Free-hand draw a vase on the brown construction paper. (It doesn’t have to be perfect. It’s basically a triangle with the pointy tip cut off/straight across. )
Free-hand draw five flower shapes on five different colors of construction paper. (If you aren’t comfortable free-hand drawing, just draw four overlapping small circles for the flowers and then, after cutting, flip them over and glue the side down that has your drawn circles on it.)
Allow the child to practice cutting by cutting out the vase shapes and the flower shapes. (For smaller children, you can pre-cut the shapes or buy paper flowers.)
Write or type the poem onto a white piece of paper. Cut the poem out in the same shape as the vase, just slightly smaller.
Glue the poem onto the brown vase and then glue them both on the white construction paper. TIP: Be sure to place the vase at the bottom of the paper so there is room for the handprint and flowers!
Place paint onto a paper plate or craft tray, have child spread fingers, dip palm into paint and then place the hand print just above the vase. TIP: Keep those fingers spread so there is room to put the flowers on!
Glue the flowers onto the ends of each fingertip.
Make paint thumbprints in the middle of each flower, using different colors for each flower. (We matched the paint color to the flower color, but you can alternate colors and it would still be really cute.) TIP: Go lightly putting paint on the thumbs or else you will just get globs of flower centers (like you see in our picture) and won’t be able to see the thumbprint. You want to be able to see the thumbprint! A good way to do this is to but paint on the thumb and then do a practice thumb “stamp” on a piece of scrap paper and then immediately onto the flower.
Notes
I left room on the poem sheet so my daughter (then age 5) could write her name and the year that she made it.