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Santa Claus Handprint Craft

Thanks to the viewer who sent this in ...  It's adorable!

Materials:

  • white paint (poster, tempra, fingerpaint)
      
  • red paint (poster, tempra, fingerpaint)
      
  • black marker and red marker
      
  • thick paper (card stock or construction paper)
      
  • ribbon or wool
      
  • scissors and hole punch

Directions:

My daughter made this in preschool.

  • Just paint your child's hand with white paint on the tip of the thumb, red on the ball of the
    hand with a little white under it, pink on the palm (mix white with a little red to make pink) and white on the fingers. 
      
  • Use a white fingerprint for the ball at the end of Santa's hat.
      
  • Then use marker or paint to make the face after it dries. 
      
  • Cut out a circle around the Santa
      
  • Punch a hole in the top and thread some ribbon through
      
  • We hang ours on our Christmas tree.

OPTIONAL:  

Another viewer shared this poem that she wrote to go with the handprint Santa:

When you hang this ornament 
From year to year, 

I hope it brings you a smile 
From ear to ear 

This handprint Santa will 
Help you to remember, 

How small I was in 2002 - 
In the month of December.

And Erika did a Spanish translation for us:

Cuando cuelgues este adorno
Año tras año 

Te treara una sonrisa
Por muchos años, 

Esta huella de Santa 
Te ayudara a recordar 

Lo pequeño que eran mis manos Años atras. Diciembre 2005

 
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