On Dasher , On Dancer , On Prancer….
Hand Print
Rudolf
I am sure this craft is not new to all of you, but I still wanted to do it with my son and figured I’d share it! Any craft that uses hand prints is a great keepsake, every year you can pull it out and see how small those little hands were and how much they’ve grown!
- Gather your materials. You will need 3-4 pieces of construction paper or card stock, some googly eyes, a red pom pom, glue, red and green crayons and glue.
- Start by tracing your child’s hands on one piece of paper.
- Now trace their foot on another piece. Cut everything out.
- While you are cutting hand your child the white piece of paper and have them decorate it , older children can draw a nice scene or do a fun abstract like my son.
- Time to glue. Add the foot first if you have a little one, they can glue it
, then you can add the hands under it, and your child can press it down. 
- Add the eyes
- Don’t forget the red nose!
- I trimmed our paper with pinking sheers and added a red backing so it would stand out against the white door we are displaying it on.
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We do these every year. I still have all my kid’s from their first Christmas! They are so tiny:)
too cute! We’ll have to try
I was really contemplating not posting cause as a teacher this is such a standard, but then some mommy friends had never heard of it, so here it is!
ack! This is so cute!! I haven’t seen it yet!
Cute idea! I never thought of it before.
Oh good , I am glad I posted our rather drunk looking rudolf
Oh, this is so cute. We will have to try this. I love anything with my son’s hand prints.
I have seen this before but I completely forgot about it and never would have remembered without you. I use all of your ideas and am forever grateful to you. Thanks!
Oh! Alexander and I are SO doing this tomorrow!
So cute!!! We did hand and foot print turkeys last month otherwise we’d totally be doing this tomorrow morning!
Oh I LOVE this!! I have to try it in the next couple of days!!!
so glad you posted this, ‘ve never seen it before. After work yesterday I got the stuff and when I got home my 2yr old and I got straight to it. It’s so cute and so simple.
I totally forgot about this classic! I did this one when I was in school. Thanks for reminding me!
I hadn’t ever heard of this before. I did it with my daughter and she loved it, even if she picked out some goofy colors for the reindeer. I’ll post a pic on my blog later…
Thanks for the great idea! My 2 yr old loved this activity this morning!
I will be checking to see the fun colored Rudolf! I should do a Christmas round up of pictures of children with crafts they’ve made from here…hmmmm
If you have a picture of your child you would like to share doing or displaying their craft ( or just the craft) email it to me and I will get them all together maybe as my Christmas Day post. Yeah I like that idea.
allie@notimeforflashcards.com
We made this on the weekend, so cute!
I am so happy you posted this. My toddler has yet to go to school, so this is perfect for us. I plan to do it for our playgroup’s holiday party. I have a question for you. Our playgroup is split between people celebrating Christmas and Hunakkah. I am going to use the party to introduce both celebrations. Do you have a craft idea similiar to Rudolph, using handprints, that would be less Christmas themed. Perhaps a snowman. Thank you so much. I love your site and now that my son is 2 I will be using all of your ideas as much as possible!
Sorry…I was a little backwards…Hanukkah!
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