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.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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