We love making keepsake ornaments with the kids during the holiday season. A couple years ago we made these adorable handprint Christmas ornaments with my kids and some of their cousins. It’s so neat having the representations of their little hands on my tree each year, especially as they get older!
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To make these keepsake ornaments you’ll need:
- Christmas scrapbook paper (multiple patterns)
- Red twine or string
- Scissors
- Laminate paper (You can use these to laminate the handprints without having a special machine)
- Red glitter gel pen
- Hole puncher
To start out, trace each child’s hand on the white side of the scrapbook paper with a pencil.
Use the gel pen to write their name and Christmas 2016.
You can get multiple handprints on one paper or do each child’s hand with a different Christmas-y pattern!
Laminate the handprints before you cut them out fully so that the laminate and the paper can be cut together.
Follow the instructions on the laminate paper to protect the handprints. Cut them out, leaving a little bit of room around the edges.
Punch a hole in each handprint and run some of your twine through it, tying a knot at the end to make a cute ornament hanger.
If your child is too small to do a handprint, you can also do a baby’s footprint in the same way!
If you have time, make several so you can give them as grandparent gift ideas for Christmas this year!
With all of the different scrapbook paper options you can customize each handprint to the decorative preferences of each grandparent!
Do you have a favorite holiday keepsake craft idea? Share it with us in the comments!
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Jennifer | The Search For Imperfection says
I *love* this idea! Those cute little hands have always been one of my favorite parts of my kids, and this is a great way to memorialize them and also have the kids involved in the Christmas decorating. I am lucky enough to have both sets of the kids’ grandparents live nearby and they are our “daycare” during the workweek. My mom is often looking for crafty ideas so I’ll pass this on to her. She’ll love it, too!
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Those are so cute ♡ will have to do this next year when I have all my kiddies and my lil family I’d complete ♡ great post . Loved it!
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This post is a great example of how to do a DIY Christmas ornament with your own handprint (and the instructions are in Chinese). At the same time, its also a great example of how not to do it.
This is an ornament from a company called Cant-Find-Christmas.com . You can order them for any holiday you want and the company will print them for you (in about 10 minutes). They include instructions for how to make your own.
The problem with this DIY Christmas ornament is that you dont know how to make something like this yourself or at least, not well enough. I have made some diy Christmas decorations, but they have always been beyond my ability to edit and even if I could, what would I put on them? Wouldnt it be more fun if someone else did it?
So I made up an ornamental fairy tale and told my daughter (at the end of December) that she should get me a tiny picture of herself as one of those characters. She was very excited and she got me a picture (I think she might have gotten one from my niece who was visiting her in her apartment while she was visiting me). But then we got home, and the digital image looked like crap& And then we showed it to my mom who said, Oh! It looks good! That looks great! Great! You did very well! Now get yourself another one.
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