Looking for a fun personalized Christmas activity you can do with your kids this season? You’re going to love these cute handmade handprint ornaments so much you won’t want to part with them! (Though they do make wonderful gifts!)
Supplies:
- Plain bulb ornaments (I used clear ones from Michael’s, but metallic red would be just as cute!)
- White acrylic paint
- paint brush
- Little hands
- Something fun to fill your ornament with, I used sparkly tinsel
- Permanent markers to draw on embellishments
Instructions:
1. Carefully paint your kids’ hands (Be prepared for lots of squeals)
2. Have them carefully ‘grab’ the bulb, being careful not to move their fingers. I helped to press their fingers onto the bulb.
3. Use markers or acrylic paint to draw on embellishments: Scarf, hat, eyes, buttons, nose, arms
4. Write their name and year onto the palm of each ornament and hang on tree, or give as gifts! Warning: These may turn out so cute you won’t want to part with them, so you may want to make a couple sets!
I hope you enjoy these adorable handmade ornaments!
Since you asked, here are some fun ideas for ADVENT:
Erica, my daughter’s preschool teacher made these and attached the following poem on a card with her school picture on the back of it…….
These aren’t just five snowmen
As anyone can see
I made them with my hand
Which is a part of me
Now each year when you trim your tree
You’ll look back and recall
Christmas of ____ (2011)
When my hand was just this small!
Just did these with my five kiddos! So so so cute! Thanks for sharing the super cute and easy idea!!! Love it!
We are SOOOO going to do this! The local painting pottery place is charging $14 per ornament to do almost the exact same thing!
Oh these are so adorable!! I am so making these with my girls! They will be squealing with delight over painting their hands! 🙂
Oh my goodness! I love these and I am going to make these with my five little ones this Christmas. what a wonderful idea. stopping by from the ornament show and tell.
We did this and it turned out super cute. Gave them to family members and they loved them. Kids thought it was great to paint on them. Thanks for the idea.
I shared your website with my daycare provider awhile ago and she came home with this ornament as a Christmas gift to us! It’s SO precious! Thanks for posting it! 🙂
What size bulbs do you use?
Love it, love it, love it😊😊
Very cute