This project was super easy. And passed my “Mommy has 15 minutes and your brother is sleeping” Criteria. It would have worked with Griffin as well- there just would have been more clean up.
So the process is this. Let the little person trace their hand and your hand. Let them (or assist) in the cutting out of the hands. Folding the paper so that you have multiple copies while cutting saves tons of time. While Dunes, 3yrs, was working on her end I cut out a big letter O from a cardboard pizza box. Any old box would work. Cheap serrated knifes make this part easy. Apply glue. Okay, let the preschooler do this. They love it. Then we alternated hands: my hand in white, hers in red. The color choice was, of course, dictated by what was left over in the spare paper pile.
Then to continue the tracing of hands theme, I traced her hand with a closed fist over a folded brown piece of paper. Then, like magic, when unfolded, it became the bow.
Ta-da! Holiday wreath. It looks like I am actively parenting even though I am frantically running around behind the scenes processing everyone’s holiday card and print orders. As you can see from the above photo she was super proud of herself. She still wont look at my camera and there was no one else that she was directing that smile at- just definitely not in my direction. Wreath now hangs on our front door.
Dec
10
2009
Dunes is so cute. Will steal your idea for craft with my kiddos – thanks! Hope you guys are doing well.
cute!! I love it! And I may have already mentioned this myself, but I have much the same problem with Max. He won’t look at me, and when he does he gets this awful weird stiff fake smile. I’m hoping we’ll get through it, but it’s been going on for a while. Good thing I like candids.
Your card was gorgeous by the way.
This is pretty cool. Thank you for the share!