Of course having a baby in the house provides all manner of excitement over the festive season. Poor Ted has been subject to all manner of comedy dressing up - not that he seems to mind too much...
But he was more than slightly baffled when I plonked him in his Bumbo and starting painting his feet!
He soon began to enjoy it though; I suspect it tickled a bit!
In order to get good prints I discovered that best best thing to do was to use clothes-pegs to attach the paper to a hardback book. You can then press the book onto the foot, rather than the other way round! As you can see I also covered the floor with newspaper and had a bowl of warm water and a cloth within easy reach. This worked really well. He couldn't reach his paint-covered feet whilst wedged into the Bumbo, and he remained pretty cheerful whilst I covered at least 20 sheets of paper with his footprints! Many were unusable, but I decided that if I did loads I'd get enough that were suitable.
Once the footprints were dry I cut them out and spent an evening in front of some festive television turning them into cards. The reindeer ears and antlers are drawn on with felt pen, and the noses and eyes cut out of paper before being glued on. The tree trunk is simply drawn with coloured pen, and the tree adorned with some sparkly stickers. The reindeer are my favourite.
This was a fun project and a nice memento of Ted's first Christmas. It seems that I'm not the only mum who had this idea: here's Nic's Christmas card made by her little boy.
I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!
2 comments:
wishing you all a very merry christmas and all good wishes for 2013. Can't believe E's first birthday is just around the corner now....
Great idea for Christmas cards, Kate. Ted is sso good sitting there and having his feet painted!We had a few e-cards this year, but I'm old fashioned and still like to send cards.
A very Happy New Year to you and your family. x
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