Crafty-Crafted.com Craft for children and anything nice

Footprint Popsicle

Draw the outline of your foot

Cut it out and paste

Paste a popsicle stick

Layer it with more footprints for a nicer effect Slurp!

My boy loves eating carrots. He says they are good for his eyes so when he heard that we are going to make a hand and footprint carrot today, he is very excited!

Hand and footprint carrot.

Paint your foot orange

Stamp it onto a piece of paper

Paint some lines across the carrot

Paint your palm green

Stamp it above the carrot and the carrot is good to be ‘eaten’

Mushrooms! We love mushrooms! Today we are going to make a footprint paper plate mushroom

Footprint paper plate mushroom

Cut a paper plate to the shape of a mushroom top

Paint the paper plate red.

While waiting for the paper plate to dry, paint your foot white or brown..

Stamp your painted foot on a piece of coloured construction paper.

Back to the paper plate. Paint a coat of diluted PVA glue all over the plate. This acts as an adhesive to hold the cotton later on and also as a varnish. Read here to learn more about varnishing using PVA glue.

Paste cotton balls

Spread the remaining PVA glue at the back of the paper plate

Paste it onto the footprint and the mushroom is done! Served with a bowl of freshly cooked mushroom soup, YUMMY!

Today we are going to blast off to the moon

Footprint Rocket

Paint the foot any colours you like and the toes orange or any other colours that represents the flame of the rocket.

It should be something like shown above

Stamp the painted foot on a piece of paper.

Glue 3 triangles – 2 at the sides and 1 on top and the rocket is ready for blast-off!

He loves rockets!

We are enjoying the durian season here now. Durian is a very ‘subjective’ fruit. You either LIKE or HATE it! To those who loves it, you’ll find that it is very fragrant while those who hate it won’t even be able to bear the pungent smell

Anyway, no guessing to which side I’m at as that is what we are doing today

Footprint Durian

Paint your foot yellow

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of art block

Paint the other foot

Stamp next to the first footprint

Paint the ‘skin’ and thorns

The durian is done

He’s one happy kid with his durian

The picture of a HEART is synonym to LOVE. Let’s make a handprint heart today

Handprint Heart

Paint your palm red

Stamp your painted palm onto a piece of paper

Paint the other palm red

And stamp to form a heart shape

Outline the heart shape

Paint the tip of your finger with any color you like

Dot to form the letter ‘I’

He simply loves finger or hand painting

Continue dotting the letter ‘U’

I <3 U

Outline the ‘I’ and ‘U’

The handprint heart artwork is done

I love handprint art. It’s been a while since we last did a handprint art. Let’s make an elephant today

Handprint Elephant

Paint your palm black

Stamp your painted palm onto a piece of paper

He loves handprint art

Paint the side of your palm white

This will be the elephant’s ear

Stamp it on the elephant as the ear

It needs an eye.

Use a marker to draw the eyes and the elephant is done

Oh Mac Donald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O,

And on his farm he has some chickens,

E-I-E-I-O,

With the cluck, cluck here, cluck, cluck there…

Alright, let’s just get to business

Hand and footprint Chicken

Trace your footprint on a piece of yellow paper

Trace your handprint on orange and red paper

Paste the footprint onto the handprints

Add eyes, beak and all and your chicken is done

Let’s do handprinting again Remember the Octopus we did?  Since we are in the mood for octopus, let’s make a handprint Octopus

Handprint Octopus

Paint four fingers and your palm. Stamp on a piece of paper. Paint again and stamp again so that your octopus has 8 tentacles.

Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes.

Use a black marker to draw the eye balls and mouth and the octopus is done

Let’s make a handprint Christmas mitten today

Handprint Christmas mitten

Paint your palm white

Stamp your painted palm on red construction paper

Draw the shape of a mitten and cut

Paste some cotton on the mitten and you are done

We are making a giant Handprint Christmas tree today. Well, you determine how GIANT you want it to be

Giant Handprint Christmas Tree

Get the kids to paint their palm green or yellow

How GIANT the Christmas tree will depend on how BIG your paper is.

Lightly draw a large triangle on the paper and get the kids to stamp their painted palm within the triangle area.

Repeat until the whole area is stamped.

Paint your palm yellow and stamp on the top of the Christmas tree as the star.

Let it dry

Once dried, paint your thumb and decorate.

You may also use sponge and rollers. Just have fun and decorate!

Wow.. that’s a pretty long name for the craft we are making today

Handprint Paper Plate Reindeer Card Holder

Paint 2 paper plates brown

Cut one plate in half

Glue the circular edge

Fold the other paper plate and cut both edges. Do not throw away the edges as you’ll need it for the ears, legs and tail.

Like this

Draw the outline of your palm and cut out

Glue the handprint cut-outs

Like this

Cut out ears, legs and tail and paste. Paste eyes and nose and glue the head to the body.

The kids with their handprint paper plate reindeer card holder

The reindeer will make a very cute card holder for your favourite greeting cards

It’s gonna be another round of ticklish affair

Footprint Christmas Tree

Paint your foot green

Stamp your painted foot onto a paper plate

Use craft punch and punch out various shapes using different coloured papers

Paste and decorate the tree as you wish

The footprint Christmas tree is done Tie a string and hang it on your real Christmas tree

Let’s make a palm tree today

Footprint Palm Tree

Paint your foot green. It’ll be a little ticklish

Print your painted foot onto a drawing paper. Paint and print. Repeat until you have the complete circle of leaves

Paint your pointer brown

Print all the way down

There, your palm tree is done. Can you smell the sea-breeze? Can you hear the waves?

Rudolph the red nose reindeer… we’ll be making one today

Handprint Reindeer

Draw the outline of your handprint on a piece of paper and cut

Use that handprint template and draw on a brown craft foam

Cut a small oval and paste as the tail

Bend some pipe cleaners and paste on the reindeer’s head. Paste other small details.

Paste googly eyes and you are done

I’m in such a joyous Christmas mood that every single thing I see reminds me of Christmas!

Let’s make a footprint snowman today

Footprint Snowman

Paint your foot white. It’s gonna be ticklish!

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of dark coloured construction paper

Help the little one cut the tiny details such as the hat, scarfs, buttons, eyes and mouth.

You may use construction paper, felt or foam

Paste the tiny details

Your footprint snowman is done!

P/S: I just realised the snowman doesn’t have hands!

We did a very interesting art piece today

Handprint Santa Claus

First paint your palm white

Stamp the painted palm onto a darker coloured paper

Paint your thumb red

Stamp the painted thumb as Santa’s nose

Paint your thumb pink

And stamp as the Santa’s cheeks

Paint your thumb white and stamp as the eyes

Cut the Santa’s hat out of red felt. We use red foam as I happened to run out of felt! Improvise!

Paste on some cotton too

Paste a cotton ball at the end of the hat

Paint your pointer black and stamp as Santa’s eyeball and you are done

Handprint Santa – featuring cute kiddos Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House

It has been a while since we last did a handprint art. So let’s make a handprint zebra today

Handprint Zebra

Paint your palm white and stamp on a piece of paper

Help the little one draw/paint black stripes and the zebra is done

I wonder if we can make corn out of a handprint?

I think we can Handprint Corn

Ethan @ 36 months

Paint your palm yellow and stamp onto a piece of paper. Oops, please redo if the paint doesn’t turn out nice

Paint 3 fingers green

And stamp around the corn and you are done

Exactly 5 years ago on this date, I married my hubs He gave me a beautiful imported dual colored tulip bouquet.

To celebrate our wedding anniversary today, we made this handprint tulip

Handprint Tulip

Paint your palm with colors of your choice

Paint it in two tonnes for better effect

Stamp your painted palm on a piece of paper

Paint 3 fingers green

Stamp as the leaf. Repeat until you get the desired effect.

Beautiful handprint tulip