*This post has been updated since the original post*

One of my favorite kinds of kid’s crafts are any that have to do with there little hands or feet. I love hand prints & tracings. My daughter and I have been dabbling with tracing a lot lately. She loves trying to trace her hand. It is adorable,really. She will trace hers & then say “Mama, trace hand toooo?” Absolutely, baby!
Their sweet little hands make such wonderful keepsake art. It will be such an “awwwwww” inducing memory to look back on in the future. Here is a Valentines inspired craft featuring the whole family’s hands.

What you will need:

Construction or scrapbook paper

Glue stick

Scissors

Marker

Letter stencils

Tracings of your hands

Directions:

Place your hands (mommy, daddy, baby) on a piece of construction paper.

Outline each hand.

Cut around the outlines of each of your hands.

Place hands in an overlapping pattern to form a heart in the middle.

Using a glue stick, glue them into position over a contrasting color.

Flip over & cut any excess to the contrast paper so that only the heart shape shows.

Glue the hands & heart to another piece of contrasting paper.

Use a stencil to trace out your saying.

Let the marker dry & glue dry.

Place your new creation in a frame.

We have since made a new family heart using our family hand prints instead of the cut-outs.

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