Happy Father's Day to all you daddies, grandpas, uncles, grampies, papas, etc!
As usual, I've been doing some crafts in my "free" time. Though, now Caraline is included in that time! I love it.
This year for Mother's Day we made our gifts. Father's Day it was the same way. I think handmade gifts are more special than most things I could buy in a store.
Now, to warn you, any craft involving a 4 month old and paint can be tricky! (Does that surprise you?)
The handprint project we did for the Mother's Day canvases was challenging. I learned my lesson and made two changes when doing a new craft with paint for Father's Day.
1) I switched to a footprint instead of a handprint (more stable)
2) I put her in her Bumbo seat, so she was stuck!
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| My adorable slobbering assistant. |
If you ask me, it was pretty genius. And it totally worked better.
We started with a few rocks that were about the size of softballs or baseballs. I had four: One for Mike, one for my dad, one for Mike's dad and one for my grandpa.
I painted them all a different solid color and let them dry. I then painted the cute little foot of my daughter and pressed each rock up against her foot. She just sat and gave me funny looks. I'm sure it felt strange to have paint on her little toesies.
The blue rock that was for Mike turned out the best. It was the cleanest print out of all of them.
After all the footprints had dried, I added glitter paint to the white prints and later wrote with puffy paint. And even though the other prints were not perfect, I still love how they turned out.
My friend Kristi did the same thing for her husband with her daughter Kinley's hand print. She gave me permission to use a photo of how hers turned out. I love the polka dots she made! So cute!
The footprint craft wasn't the only gift I had handmade for Mike this year. I also commissioned my friend D'ann with Creative Metals by D to have a keyring made for him.
I just love it. And it's so special. D'ann is so talented.
Happy Father's Day, my friends!
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