Thursday, December 26
This may be late for this year, but something to keep in mind for another time. Handprint ornaments! Commemorate the year and size of your little ones forever with a handprint ornament for the tree! They are simple to make!
Materials:
paper for hand tracing
pencil
scissors
felt
sharpie marker
embroidery floss/needle
ribbon
Trace your child's hand onto paper and cut it out. For every ornament you intend to make, trace two hands onto felt with the magic marker and cut them out. This makes the ornament thicker and have some structure for hanging on the tree. If you choose, pick a side to be the front and do a simple backstitch embroidery into the center of the hand with your child's first initial and the year. You could also do this with a sharpie marker. Place two hands together and sandwich a loop of ribbon at the top, which is where the wrist of the hand would be. Using embroidery floss and the needle, secure the ribbon between the two felt hands, then use a running stitch to sew around the hand and up the fingers. Depending on the age of your child, they might be able to help with the stitching! The clever girl did some of mine!
I attached these to the tops of Christmas presents for the grandparents and they were LOVED. These were a surprise for my family, so I couldn't post them earlier! Sorry!