Hand Print Crafts for Father’s Day

May 24, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Cards and crafts involving hand prints and footprints are classic for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, and they give us a chance to look back through the years and see how much our kids have grown.

They’re also really easy projects to make for Father’s Day, and a great way to do a craft in a classroom without it taking too much time (though cleaning all those little hands and feet is definitely a process). Here are some cute hand and footprint crafts for Father’s Day for you to make with one kid or a bunch.

If you want hand prints without the paint, this handprint Father’s Day grill card from Our Kid Things is a good option. Just grab their template to help you make the pieces of the grill, trace and cut out hands, write a grill pun in the card and you’re all set.

Give dad a high five for all the great work he does with this simple card from Pepper Scraps. Just print, paint and stamp the hand, or trace and color in the hand, and you’re all set.

Crafty Morning is the queen of cute handprint projects. She’s got one where kids use their hands to add spikes to a dinosaur and a super cute pirate that’s shown done with a hand but you could probably do it with a footprint, too, if you’d rather.

And if you need more ideas, check out these cute printables from Mr. Mintz Crafts, which just need to be printed out and have a hand or foot print added to make them reading for giving. These are products that are for sale but definitely worth it for the quick and cute factor. The I love you to the moon and back one is my favorite, but they’re all really cute.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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