Scrapbooking With Kids: Handprints and Footprintsby Nicole Humphrey | More from this Blogger 09 May 2006 08:21 AM
Well the good news is, with a scrapbook layout you can! Since there are several different ways you can capture your child's handprint or footprint in their scrapbook. My favorite way is to use an ink pad. You need to be sure it is an archival ink pad, and that it is safe for your layout. Stamp the stamp pad onto the hand or foot. Then place the inked hand or foot onto where you want it on the paper. Voila - a preserved handprint or footprint. Another way to do it is to use paint. Try to find a paint that is archival, and then take the paint brush and brush a coat of paint onto to the surface of a hand or foot. Be sure on a foot to coat all the tiny toes. After you have a coat of paint in place, take the paper and push it against the painted hand or foot. When you have finished your stamped image, it's time to think about how you want to do the rest of the layout. I say simple is best. Using a photo from that time period and perhaps a poem or quote should be perfect. Keep the focus on the tiny print, rather than the rest of the layout. Here are a handful of poems or quotes you could use with your layout. My Hands Sometimes you get discouraged Because I am so small And always leave my fingerprints On furniture and walls. But every day I'm growing ... I'll be grown-up someday, And all those tiny handprints Will surely fade away. So here's a final handprint Just so you can recall Exactly how my fingers looked When I was very small. Footprint Poem The pitter patter of little feet Leave behind something dear and sweet A precious treasure for me to keep The memories of your little feet. My Handprints My dirty little handprint I've left on every wall And on the drawers and tabletops I've really marked them all But here is one that won't rub off I'm giving it to you Because I am so thankful For a (mother/father/gran) just like you! My Hands These little hands can wave Hello Or put smudges on the wall They can fold in prayer, throw a kiss Or reach up so very tall They'll clasp your hand for a little stroll Or shape a ball from clay But most of all, they'll stay with you When I'm grown up and far away My Handprints There used to be so many Of my finger prints to see On furniture and walls and things From sticky, grubby me. But if you stop and think awhile You'll see I'm growing fast These little moments disappear You can't bring back the past. So here is a small reminder To keep, not throw away Of tiny hands and how they looked To make you smile someday. My Handprints Tiny handprints grow so fast Their awkward groping soon will clasp A ball, a book a sweetheart's hand A diploma, briefcase, a wedding band Tiny handprints grow so strong It doesn't take them very long To snap a shirt, to paint, to draw To work hard , to drive a car Tiny handprints grow to be A person that is quite unique A wonderful mix of so many things With his own feelings, thought and dreams Tiny handprints grow to rely On his parents to bring him up just right His parents pray that when he's grown He'll say their job has been well done Tiny handprints are ours to love The sweetest gift from God above A miracle that never is surpassed How sad they grow up way to fast - Handprint Poem Children have a certain way of growing bigger every day, But these little hands and this special smile will stay in our hearts a long, long while. Handprint Poem This is my hand. My hand will do A 1000 loving things with you And you will remember When I am tall... That once my hand Was just this small. Handprint Poem My dirty little fingerprints I've left on every wall, And on the drawers and table tops, I've really marked them all. But here is one that won't rub off, I'm giving it to you, Because I'm thankful for a (mother/father/grandma/etc) just like you! Handprint Poem You always clean the fingerprints I leave upon the wall. I seem to make a mess of things Because I am so small. The years will pass so quickly I'll soon be grown like you And all my little fingerprints Will surely fade from view. So here's a special handprint A memory that's true. So you'll recall the very day I made this just for you! Handprint Poem Here is my hand So tiny, so small to hang somewhere upon your wall. Handprint Poem This is the hand You used to hold When I was only __ years old. "Some people come into our lives and quickly go... Some stay and make footprints on our hearts... And we are never, never the same." - Author Unknown "The footprints you leave behind will influence others. There is no person who at some time, somewhere, somehow, does not lead another." - Author Unknown "Take a child by the hand and you take a parent by the heart." - Author Unknown Learn more about Nicole Humphrey  Nicole Humphrey is a freelance writer, consultant for CTMH and a Sr. Blogger for families.com. She resides in St. Charles, Missouri with Mike and their five children and two furbabies. Relevantscrapbooking tags ideas | family | baby | Scrapbooking | wedding | children | relationships | christmas | holidays | Kids User Comments Andrea M (2525) 20 May 2006 06:55 AMOK love this article!! Tears in my eyes:) Community Tags babies, footprints, handprints, layouts, Scrapbooking, Scrapbooking quotes, scrapbooking handprints and foot Discuss this article
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Don't you wish you could keep your children small forever? And wouldn't it be nice if we could just freeze time and have some way to remember those tiny fingers and toes?
