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I’m obsessed with tiny feet and hands. I want to preserve every stage of my children and that includes making their handprints and footprints into artwork whenever possible.
Last year, my mom tried to make a card with both of my kid’s feet prints. My son was 4 1/2 and apparently turned into a giant overnight and his footprint barely fit onto the sheet of paper (the 8.5 inch side.) We ended up turning it into a large picture and it’s framed and sits on my home desk. This year, I decided to just stick with my 1-year-old’s feet because they’re still tiny.
What you need: Card stock, finger paints, a paint brush and a baby. I completed the footprints in just a couple of minutes, and my baby was mostly stripped down for a bath.
I also had a wet paper towel that I used to wipe her foot off right after I was done.
So I did the purple foot first. I only painted her right foot, and I tried to keep her from touching it. I actually stamped it twice, to get a good image, and then I wiped her foot. I moved onto the left foot and again I painted her foot, and stamped the card stock (just once, and not even with the flowers, because I thought I liked how it would look spaced out.) You really have to hold the foot in place to get a decent paint job. My daughter always sticks up one toe – it’s something she’s done since the day she was born. So I had to push that toe down to get it to mark. Oh, and try not to let your baby’s foot shift to the side (because the baby will squirm.)
Feel free to paint in any toes that don’t quite get the full image.
Place the baby directly into the bath. Seriously, I set the card stock to the side, and immediately gave the baby a bath. The finger paints dried fully within about 2 hours (probably less, but I was dealing with bedtime.) I then painted stems, grass and leaves.
If you wanted to do this for Mother’s Day, you could write a message on the paper. Be sure to put a date on the picture! I then cut my paper to fit a 5×7 frame.
And I’m still in love with her feet. Now they can be on display year-round!
Even more perfect, this artwork would fit easily into a scrapbook. It’s something I’ll continue to try for a few years – at least until her feet are just too big for the paper!
Will you be working on any projects in the next week for Mother’s Day?
What a sweet idea! I’ve always loved getting gifts involving hand prints and footprints. Priceless.
Adorable idea. I think you nailed this gift for any mom or grandparent!
That is such a cute idea. I loved making crafts with my kids hand and foot prints when they were little – it is so sweet.
Oh wow… that’s such a great idea. It’s too late for me to make one with my kids, but it’s on for my God children… that is a wonderful Mother’s Day gift idea and it get’s the children involved… in a sense… thanks for sharing a great idea!
What a cute little craft. I wish I did more of these projects when my kids were smaller.
Oh, these are so cute! I bet they will be treasured for a long time too. I used to teach preschool and we did a lot of handprint art. I love this footprint project too.
WOW! This is such a cute idea 😀 I’ll try all these ideas for my lady love.
Oh gosh, this is too flippin’ adorable! I Love it 🙂 I remember we did something similar for a craft during Christmas. Only it was his footprint on an ornament! (That was much more difficult to maneuver, hahahha)
I kind of want to do this with my eight-year-old. Her feet are pretty big though. 🙂
I need to tweak this and do something similar for my husband for fathers day. Such a stinkin cute idea!
Footprint art is fun. I did a butterfly with my grandbaby once. I saw someone do Rudolph and it was cute. I like your flowers. 🙂