Messy Monday -- Handprints for Father's Day

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I LOVE my kid's handprints.  I love watching them grow through the size of their handprints.  Today's post will be a compilation of different handprint projects we have done over the years and will hopefully give you some great ideas.

We made Salt Dough keepsakes for Mother's Day.  The directions are here.  It would be really cool to roll out the dough, put your child's handprint in it, and then put the circle into the bottom of a bowl or on a curvy plate before you bake it.  Doing so would turn up the edges a little so it can hold all of the stuff Dads take out of their pockets when they get home from work.

Or you could make "pop-art" out of your little munchkin's hands.  You can get larger items laminated for a small fee at teacher stores.  Then you can put it in a frame or use it as a placemat.

Every year for Father's Day I have made Mr. Wonderful a tie with the kid's handprints on it.  I have always made it out of paper and laminated it and put yarn at the top so he could wear it.  And yes, he does wear it to church every single year.  What a guy!  These are the ones I made for the last two years.  The white one is from 2008 and the green one is from 2009.  You can actually see how much bigger their hands are from one year to the next.  I love it!

This year I am going to make him an actual cloth tie that he can wear like a real tie.  I'm going to follow this pattern and trace the kids handprints all over it with a fabric marker.  Then I'm going to use one color for each kid and embroider over each handprint.  I can't wait to see what it looks like.

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