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These little keepsakes are priceless, handprint, footprint and fingerprint art is ALWAYS a great idea.  This print art has it all, the chick is a handprint, the carrot a footprint and finally the bunny is a heal print with fingerprint ears! You really can’t go wrong with these cute Easter critters. Since our carrot was only five weeks old and siblings three and five years, the canvas’s didn’t need to be very big. Certainly use your judgement when selecting the canvas size, you could also have all three characters on one canvas.

Cute Easter Handprint and Footprint Craft Ideas

What you’ll need:

For the Bunny:

• a 4″x 4″ canvas
• yellow, light pink, dark pink and black paint
• child safe white paint
• *optional – pink glitter and glue*

For the Chick:

• a 4″x 4″ canvas
• light green, orange, white and black paint
• child safe yellow paint
• *optional – orange glitter and glue*

For the carrot:

• a 4″x 4″ canvas
• light blue, dark orange, green paint
• child safe orange paint
• *optional – green and orange glitter and glue*

Step 1 – The base coat.   Firstly, using the indicated colours, apply a base coat to your canvas.  You may need to apply two coats, if so allow the paint to dry completely between each coat and once again when thoroughly painted.

Step 2 – The hand/foot/finger print.  Above all, be sure to have plenty of wipes or paper towel handy for clean-up!!  The bunny requires a painted heal and two (or one) painted finger.  The heel should be painted in white paint and then pressed onto the canvas, this will create the bunny’s head/upper body.  Allow this to dry before adding the finger print ears.  Painting one finger is a little easier to maneuver then two.  To create the chick, apply a generous amount of paint to the hand and press onto the canvas, set aside to dry.  The carrot is created by applying a generous amount of paint to the foot and pressing it onto the canvas. Once again, set aside to dry.

Easter Critter Keepsakes.  Fun Kids Craft!

Step 3 – The Details.   Now for the sightly tricky part.  The bunny requires eyes, a nose, a mouth and some whiskers painted in.  Also some pink on the ears to give the bunny some character.  The Chick needs eyes, eyelashes and a beak.  Finally, the carrot needs some darker orange lines painted in to represent the gradations seen on a real carrot and some green on top for the stem.  Paint these details as you see here or create your own character features!

*Step 4 – Optional glitter*   We love everything that sparkles so it was a must to add sparkle to these cute critters.  To create some sparkle, we used some all purpose glue and crafting glitter.  The bunny has pink glitter added to accent the ears and nose, the chick has orange glitter on its beak and finally the carrot has orange glitter along the dark orange gradations and green glitter for the stem.

In short, you will never tire of these Cute Easter Handprint and Footprint Craft Ideas!  If you’re looking for some more Easter critters check out our Cute Critter Treat Jars or if your looking for a beautiful decor piece see these Modern Easter Eggs in a Graphic Pattern. Happy Crafting!

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These Christmas handprint ideas are very easy to make and great for kids of all ages. Students, toddlers and preschoolers will all have fun creating and decorating their handprints. Younger children may need a little help cutting their handprints out but can revel in their independence when decorating Santa, trees and penguins.

What do you need to create these Handprint Christmas Kids Craft Ideas?

• Construction paper in red, white, blue, green and yellow
• Glue Stick
• Stick on gems, stickers and small decorations
• Markers
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Ribbon for creating a garland
• Popsicle sticks for creating puppets
• Card stock for creating Christmas cards

It’s easy to put these Christmas kids’ crafts together. Simply trace your child’s hand, cut it out (they may need a hand – see what we did there?) and decorate!

Firstly, the Christmas Tree needs decorations and a star made out of yellow construction paper. A brown stump can be glued to the back of the handprint, also made from construction paper.

Secondly, the Santa is made by tracing your child’s hand on some white construction paper. Glue a red Santa hat with a white pom-pom and trim to the top of the Santa’s head. His face can be drawn with markers.

Finally, make the penguin by tracing your child’s hand on blue construction paper, add a white “belly” and red scarf. Create their cute face with markers.

Lastly, decide what you want the Christmas characters to be!

If you would like to make a garland for the mantel or a doorway simple tape them onto some string or ribbon.

Create puppets by adding a popsicle stick to the back of the character using glue.

Or personalize the handprint characters by making them into Christmas cards. Simply glue the handprints onto card stock folded in half. The cards can be the same size as the characters or smaller if you want some of the handprint to pop out!

We hope you love these Christmas Kids Craft Handprint Ideas. If you’re looking for more Christmas fun, check out our Christmas Movie Checklist with Free Printable or our Photo and Card Display Boxes – perfect for Santa photo’s and gifts for family, friends or teachers gifts! Lastly, don’t forget to check out these cute Christmas Windsock Crafts by I Heart Crafty Things.

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