The kids and I were busy today creating! My Hubby brought home a giant roll of brown paper the other day for our Christmas gifts. I thought it would be cute to decorate the paper with Christmas themed hand and feet prints of the kids. So to practise we made reindeer faces with their hands and feet and ended up with a keepsake on canvas.
What we used:
13`` by 21`` white canvas
beige acrylic paint
brown acrylic paint
black acrylic paint
red acrylic paint
paper plates
permanent marker
Their feet are the faces and their hands made the antlers. Then we used their thumbs to make the eyes and nose. Using only THEIR hand, foot and thumbs for THEIR individual reindeer ensured that the reindeer features looked proportioned. Then I just wrote with permanent marker the year and their names beside each face. Simple right!
I soon realised that hand prints with young kiddies can be tricky. I wasn't intentionally planning on writing Reindeer at the bottom but my son got carried away with his finger painting and we ended up with a blob of beige paint at the bottom of the canvas. So I made it into a large R and wrote eindeer beside it and I think it looks really cute!
Now we have a super adorable painting keepsake that I can bring out every year and show off too our family and friends!
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