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Hand Print Wreaths

December 8, 2011 by OneMommy

Hand print crafts are simple and fun to do with little ones.  Not only that, but if you keep a few, over the years they become precious keepsakes that show you just how much they’ve grown.

For one of our Christmas crafts we had fun making  hand print wreaths.

preschool Christmas craft -- make a handprint wreath

Hand Print Wreaths

You could make this craft using all green hand prints and then adding red berries or bows to them.

But using red and green paper allows your child to work on simple patterns while they are crafting.

Start by tracing your preschooler’s hands.  To cut several hands out at one time, stack several sheets of paper up before cutting.   You could also have your child cut out several of the handprints.  This is a great time to work on more advanced scissor skills.

Cut out the inner circle from a paper plate to form the base of your wreath.

Have your child glue the hand prints onto the plate.  We worked on a simple AB pattern, gluing red, green, red….  preschooler Christmas craft

You will want to have plenty of handprints cut out before they start gluing.
I could barely keep up with my toddler as he grabbed little hand prints to add to his wreath!

toddler Christmas craft
He had to add a little decoration in marker…

Make sure your child understand what a wreath is.  My daughter thought it was supposed to be a fancy Christmas crown, which it actually does look like.

easy kid's Christmas craft
Introducing the Christmas Queen!
hand print wreath craft
…Not to be out done by the queen…. My little King!

Just when I thought they couldn’t be any funnier with the wreaths, we had a lion show up!

lion craft
Roar!

Any craft a kid can play with and be creative with afterward gets points in my book!

Our handprint wreaths did make it to the doors, but we chose to hang them from the doorknobs, where they can be easily accessed should there be a need for a fancy hat or lion’s mane in the future.

 

You’ll also like these Christmas crafts for kids:

  • Handprint Angels
  • Simple Shape Santa Craft
  • Homemade Christmas Ornaments 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: Christmas, holiday

Comments

  1. Kristen says

    December 9, 2011 at 10:53 am

    We have these too from back in the pre-school days and I break them out just like I do their turkey handprints from back then. I still can’t believe how their hands keep getting closer to the size of mine 🙁

    • admin says

      December 10, 2011 at 3:22 pm

      It’s hard to toss anything with their little hand prints on it… They grow up way too fast! I found last year’s turkeys and decided to put them back in the basket I found them in…and I put this year’s in there, too.

  2. shari lynne @ Faith Filled Food For Moms and Grandmothers says

    December 9, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    Just perfect for little hands! Love it, so will my Grandson!
    Blessings!

    • admin says

      December 10, 2011 at 3:21 pm

      The more I trace those little hands, the more I love them.

  3. Lisa @ Two Bears Farm says

    December 10, 2011 at 7:23 am

    These are so sweet! We’ll have to try them.

  4. Hannah says

    December 10, 2011 at 9:06 am

    What a great idea…I’ve got little ones. I’ll have to try this out!

    • admin says

      December 10, 2011 at 3:20 pm

      They had fun doing them. My husband actually thinks they makes some pretty cute hats! (I love how our daughter did that; I’d never had thought about it.)

  5. Amanda says

    December 16, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    We love hand-print crafts! These would look great with huge ribbon bows! I love how they used them as hats. How creative!!!!!!!!

    • admin says

      December 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm

      My daughter actually had her daddy make a paper bow for hers, very cute!
      Yes, I LOVE how creative they get sometimes!

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