Last year, in the reader response section of Real Simple magazine, I read about a mom who painted her children’s handprints onto their Christmas tree skirt each year. Not only was it a creative way to display their growth, but eventually, all of the handprints started to look like big snowflakes scattered around the skirt. I LOVED the idea, and made a version of my own.
The skirt was made using Simplicity pattern 1234, version C. Because there will eventually be handprints all over it, I simply used solid red and green fabric.
I then painted each of my son’s hands with white fabric paint and pressed them onto the skirt side-by-side. I was afraid he’d wiggle around, so we cut out hand-shaped holes into wax paper as a barrier. This turned out to be overkill – but better safe than sorry! The year was written next to the handprints using fabric paint pen.
It looks a little barren right now with only the two tiny handprints on the entire skirt, but I’m excited to see how it will change as the years pass by and he grows and grows!
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