Hands (and feet) Down!

I bought some Organic Bloom circle frames in orange and yellow for Katie's room. I honestly couldn't decide what pictures to put in the frames and I was nervous about making things fit into the circle. So I thought about her initials but we already have a monogram decal on one wall. Then I thought about pictures/clip arts of owls - but I thought it was overkill with the owl theme.

So I decided to create some art! Katie and I went and got some scrapbooking paper with coordinating colors/patterns for her bedroom.

Then we mixed up our paint (only had blue, red, yellow, white) and made orange, green, yellow, and pink to match her room.

My idea was to do both hand prints and both foot prints - one for each frame. We bought some extra paper just in case some of them didn't turn out right.

So after mixing the paint, we headed outside to make ART! Doug was assigned the task of painting her hands and feet and helping her place them on the paper. She watched very intently. She was a little confused about getting paint on her hands since we usually try to keep paint on the paper!

 

She did pretty good spreading her fingers out to make the hand print and even held her hands still long enough to make the print turn out!

 

Next up were the feet! She giggle and squirmed through the painting of both feet and really liked STOMPING her footprint onto the paper!

 

The prints only took a few minutes to make and very little paint. So with the time and paint we had leftover, we freestyled on the craft paper taped to the sidewalk!

 

We laid all the pages out to dry and waited to see how they would turn out...

 

So about that...Have I ever mentioned how big Katie's feet are? She's 2 1/2 and wears a 9 1/2. That means her footprint is that of a 9 1/2 size foot. Which didn't exactly fit into the opening of the frame! But - I trimmed it a little and it doesn't look too bad in the frame after all.

A few of the patterns on the scrapbook paper were too bold and show through the foot/handprint making it hard to tell what the picture is. I think I need to go back and paint the prints a little darker/more opaque.

Nevertheless, they are hanging up in her room now! I'm still deciding if I like the way they turned out and may just eventually break down and put pictures in the frames. But for now - we've got hands and feet of our little girl to adorn her wall and another fun memory in the book!