Valentine’s Gift for Grandma: Baby Hands and Feet Flower Painting

Valentine’s Gift for Grandma: Baby Hands and Feet Flower Painting

Valentine’s gifts for grandparents from your kids are easier when you have older children. They can do all sorts of fun crafts, from jewelry to the classic Valentine’s card. When you have a baby, options are little more limited. They can’t very well hold a crayon, and stringing beads is not an option. The good news is they have the most adorable little hands and feet ever.

This year for Valentine’s Day, why not make a pretty flower painting for grandma with your little one’s hands and feet? It’s a simple project that will melt grandma’s heart and is really pretty inexpensive. That’s always a win.

What you’ll need for a Baby Hands and Feet Flower Painting:

  • 8″ x 10″ piece of white or light blue poster board
  • Finger paint – green and your chosen colors for the the blooms
  • Picture frame
  • Paint pen – black, silver and gold are all beautiful
  • Matting (optional)

How to Make a Baby Hands and Feet Flower Painting:

1. Using the green finger paint, paint a simple landscape of grass and four flower stems. Space stems far enough apart that there will be room for each hand and foot print to stand without touching the next one.

2. Paint the palm of your baby’s hand with the finger paint color of your choice.

3. Before the paint begins to dry, gently press his hand down at the top of the first stem, making a bloom.

4. Rinse hand.

5. Repeat steps 2-4, alternating hands and feet.

6. Allow paint to dry overnight.

7. After painting dries, write a short message above the flowers with the paint pen.

8. Frame painting in picture frame, using matting for an extra elegant touch.

Bonus Tip: If you’re great at pretty lettering, you can write quotes or a lovely message all the way around the border of the matting with the paint pen instead of writing on the painting itself.

Note: These instructions are for a landscape style painting. If you want the picture to stand or hang vertically, just make one hand and foot flower, for a total of 2.

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One of the most prized electronics in our house is my husband’s tablet computer. He originally purchased it to keep track of appointments, have a remote Internet connection and other business-related functions. My tech-loving sons had different ideas as soon as they saw it. After all, it looks like a giant smart phone, so they knew it had serious entertainment potential right away. Because the hubz has a soft spot for all things nerdy and loves to pass his passion for technology on to the boys when he can, he quickly gave in and introduced them to “the tab.”

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Kyan: Hi, daddy, I love you.

The hubz: Morning, dude!

Kyan: I can’t wait to play the tab tonight. Can you help me with the word game?

The hubz: Sure, it’ll be fun. It’s a date.

Kyan (running to me in excitement): Dad and I are going to play the word game tonight on the tab!

Me: Um. You lost the tab for today. Remember?

Kyan (with look of triump): Yeah, but daddy said it was okay!

Me: Yeah. No. No tab tonight, but nice try. Don’t ever do that again.

Kyan: But…

Me: Nope.

Kyan: Ughhhh. No fair.

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Motherhood and martyrdom aren’t synonymous. Sometimes I have to remind myself that doing a little for myself isn’t selfish. My kids deserve to have a mom that’s happy, and those little treats aren’t going to get my selfless mom card revoked.

Do you ever struggle with this? What do you like to do for yourself from time to time?

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