I love creating crafts with student hand prints. Last year, we made these snowmen ornaments for parent gifts. Super cute and super easy. You will need an ornament, white acrylic paint, a black Sharpie and an orange Sharpie marker. Paint your child's hand white and help them carefully grab onto the ornament. Let the ornament dry (an empty egg carton works well if you are doing a classroom of kids!). Teachers added the eyes and nose for the kids and done!!!
This year, I adapted an idea from Family Fun magazine. The original idea... http://spoonful.com/crafts/rudolph-red-nosed-handprint was to trace the child's hand on brown fun foam or card stock and cut out. Cutting out forty five hand prints was going to be a little time consuming so we painted their hands and printed on some large gift tags we had donated. You will need brown tempera paint, googly eyes, red poms, brown chenille stems cut in about 3 inch sections, glue and ribbon.
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Bend the chenille stems into reindeer horns for gluing.
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Glue eye, nose and antlers onto reindeer. Let glue dry.
Add ribbon and hang on tree or doorknob!
