All you need is the handprint kit, water, newspaper, and little hands. I'm not sure if The Christmas Tree Shops still carries these or not, but you can find similar kits at any craft store. I just followed the instructions on the package. You mix the plaster with water, pour it into the round mold that came with the kit and then stick their hands in it. I don't have many pics to share here because this required my full and uninterrupted attention. lol...but here are the finished products. They are kind of hard to see in the pics. I'm thinking of letting them paint them with the outdoor paint I bought for their clay pots. I also took a popsicle stick and wrote their names (well...Ryleigh insisted on writing her own name, of course) and the year on them.
Now we will forever know how big their little hands were in 2010. :) And, then we started our height chart! I put mine on the door jam of our pantry. We have sliding closet doors on ours, so I couldn't do it on the back of the door like mom did, but for some reason it had to be on the pantry door...it brings back memories of me doing it as a kid myself.
Sorry...this week's project isn't all that exciting, but its actually been one of my favorites to-date. Because I know we just created lasting memories and documented a little piece of each of my children on that day.
Sorry...this week's project isn't all that exciting, but its actually been one of my favorites to-date. Because I know we just created lasting memories and documented a little piece of each of my children on that day.
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