Firstly a lovely idea for Christmas cards, is the hand print reindeer! You simply need some brown paint, red paint (for Rudolf's nose) some boogly eyes and some pens! (Oh and a lovely little baby/toddler/ child)
Oscar and I made these for family & friends:
Oscar was a delight when making these and loved dipping his hand in the paint! Don't worry if they don't look 'perfect' its all part of the fun!
Once your child has made some hand prints on the card you can use a finger to dab on the red nose!
Allow these to dry for an hour or so and simply draw on some antlers, stick some boogly eyes on and a festive message and you're done!
On top of these I made some hand and foot print parrots with my boy! These were gifts for Grandparents. I thought these would be especially nice as the Grandparents don't have much of Oscar's art. Our house is adorned with his masterpieces already but not so much is kept at family's houses so we thought these would make a nice little present.
For your parrot art you will need:
3 coloured paints
Boggly eyes
A box frame
Coloured card (for the beak)
Simply take a painted footprint from your gorgeous little one and allow to dry. Then add two hand prints to make the wings. We used a mixture of paint colours for the wings to give our parrots more colour.
Once these have dried simply stick a boogly eye on, cut out a beak with the coloured card and glue it on to finish off your parrot.
We mounted ours in a box frame £2.99 from The Range and finished them off with Oscar's name and age! They are adorable and fun to make!
Finally here are a few other bits that kept me busy:
Sausage dog and Auntie word art.
These were made on Tagxedo using custom shapes and printed professionally at our local printers.
We also customised a wooden kitchen for our little boy. But I feel this deserves its own blog post :)
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