8 Crafts To Preserve Your Child’s Handprints & Footprints

As parents, we have our days when we can’t wait until our children are old enough to take care of themselves and not need to depend on us for so much. However, there is also that big part in our hearts that wants them to stay little for as long as possible. These 8 hand print crafts will help to preserve those memories of their younger days and how small they really were. Who knows, maybe one of these would make a great Mother’s Day gift as well (hint, hint)! All of these kids craft projects use handprints.

Looking for more Handprint crafts? Check out these Handprint articles we wrote previously. You may want to purchase a ready-made kit for a handprint keepsake too.

1- Handprint Apron from Little Page Turners

2- Love You Hand Prints from Lil Luna

3- Sunshine Keepsake Print from The Realistic Mama

4- Salt Dough Footprint Heart from Hub Pages

5- Thumbprint Family Tree from Day 2 Day Supermom

6- Handprint Bouquet from Wallfry

7- Hand Shaped Ring Dish from Mama Papa Bubba

8- Handprint Cupckae Card from I Heart Arts N Crafts

Looking for more salt dough projects? check these salt dough crafts out on our sister site Craftbits.com

If you are looking for an airdrying clay as an alternative I highly recommend Das Airdrying white clay I have been using it for over 30 years and it never fails me.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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