This year my son’s class did a neat little project as a PTA fundraiser. They each made a little piece of art using canvas boards. BBC was chosen to make a Santa from his handprint. This reminded me of the Christmas cards we made a few years back.
BBC was about to turn three and he was quite the big boy. We decided to do handmade (pun intended) Christmas cards for close family and friends. This is a fun and fairly simple (but messy) project to do with the kiddos. If you are ambitious like us you can make cards. This also makes a nice piece of artwork you can frame or even hang from the tree each year.
We used tempera paint back then. If I were doing over I would use acrylic craft paint in gloss. Using a foam brush we painted his hands and feet and then stamped onto pre-folded pieces of card stock.
We simply embellished each one with markers and additional paint. You could use googly eyes and other fun items to dress them up even more! Since we were making several cards, we kept it simple. We made reindeer with hands.
And Christmas trees with feet. We added a Merry Christmas stamp to the front of each card in red and added a picture of BBC and a special note inside. BBC picked the cards for each individual family. It was so sweet and so much fun! He shares his mother’s love for projects.
We also did a few Santa hands but they didn’t turn out nearly as cute as the canvas from this year. I think we will revamp this project and make a reindeer and tree on canvas boards to go with this Santa. Then we will have a trio of artwork to hang each holiday.
I’m sharing this craft over at Kate’s Christmas Craft party. I hope to pick another kid project or two from this party to tackle with BBC over the holiday break!
I’m also sharing at a Meaningful Family Christmas. Check it out – the post is bilingual – so cool!
And finally I’m throwing my hat in the ring for the CSI project.
Happy Crafting!
~Southern Fried Gal
December 7, 2010
LOVE the foot Christmas tree. I must find a way to remember this for when my son gets a little older.
Beats the hand-print turkey any day.
December 7, 2010
I teach Kindergarten and this idea is so cute! My kids would love to do that!
Visiting from CG
December 7, 2010
My boys would love this! Thanks for the fun idea!
December 7, 2010
Sweet cards! I love anything made from handprints, footprints, or even fingerprints.
My girls and I made homemade Christmas cards this year. Lots of fun.
December 7, 2010
Very cute! I’m going to pass that one to my daughter who works with young kids a lot, she’ll love it!!
December 7, 2010
Very cute! I will try to do that with my kids! Thank you for sharing!
December 7, 2010
I love your ideas and I also would much prefer to receive a special card like this over a mass produced one.
December 7, 2010
darling idea! please link it up to my party!
http://busyasabeeinparis.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-ideas-for-children-des-idees.html
December 7, 2010
oh my gosh, what a fantastic craft for kids. and to keep as memories-little feet as a tree! genius!
http://www.thecapeonthecorner.blogspot.com
December 7, 2010
Those are so cute! I can’t wait to do things like this with Westin!
Don’t forget to email me the details about your giveaway tomorrow.
December 7, 2010
These are so cute!
December 7, 2010
Those are so cute, C! The Santa one is my fave.
December 8, 2010
Such a beautiful keepsake!
December 8, 2010
Too cute! Love the santa one
December 9, 2010
Totally adorable.
Pretty please with pizza on top…link this up to Creative Juice Thursdays…
(I have tons of mommy readers that would eat this up!)
http://momnivoresdilemma.blogspot.com/2010/12/creative-juice-thursday-take-two.html
December 11, 2010
Fun – what a cute idea!!
December 21, 2010
Thanks so much for linking up to my party. It was wonderful having you! Have a very merry Christmas!
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