"My Hand Print"

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• Step 1

  First off you will need to get some finger paint. You could either put some into a plate or (like I did) paint your childs hands with a brush. Then let your child press it onto a piece of construction paper.

• Step 2

  Lay the hand print(s) to the side to dry. In the meantime, let your kids pick out embellishments. (My son chose the feathers...and my daughter chose the bows.)

• Step 3

  While your kids are rummaging through your craft box for add ons...you can go ahead and write up this poem to go along with your "hands"......

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  Step 4

  My Hand Print
  Sometimes you get discouraged
  Because I am so small
  And always leave my fingerprints
  On furniture and walls
  But everyday I'm growing big
  And soon I'll be very tall
  Then all my little hand prints
  Will be hard to recall
  So here's a special hand print
  Just so that you can say
  this is how my fingers looked
  when I placed them here today.

• Step 5

  When the hands dry...figure out how you want everything to lay. (My layout was very simple...but cute.) Now just tape your pieces down...or glue them. I chose to use tape instead of glue for fear of wrinkling my paper.

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  Step 6

  When you have finished taping and gluing...put your childs beautiful artwork into a picture frame. Now its all ready!

  Enjoy!

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KMOM14 · Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · 378 projects 26th December 2009

I like how you have displayed this. This really does make a wonderful keepsake for Grandparents and parents like and great way to get even very young kids involved in crafting by using the finger paint to make handprints.

I still have one like this from when my son was little and it does make a wonderful keepsake. Also kids like to show off how much they have grown when they visit by comparing the size of their hands when they were little to how big their hands get as they have grown.

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