Blogger / 25 November, 2024 / Nanny Anita

Footprint Christmas Cards

The life of a nanny means that when you leave one job you basically go back to the beginning again with a new family.  After years of doing more complicated type cards, I am going back to the simple ones.  There isn’t much you can do with a 9-month-old in terms of arts and crafts, so it is time to the good old footprint Christmas cards.

Make sure you follow my Christmas craft board on Pinterest for more ideas.  Don’t forget to save the pin for later.

To make your own footprint Christmas cards you will need:

• Card stock
• Paint
• Paintbrush
• Something to distract your little one

I have found that the easiest way to do this is firstly do the feet rather than handprints.  Getting clean handprints from a baby is a lot harder, they tend to scrunch their fingers up.  I did NC’s prints while she was in her highchair eating a snack.  The distraction made it 100xs easier.  Plus, as she was contained, it meant that the mess from the paint was also contained.

Start by getting everything ready while your little on is having a nap, then you don’t have to scramble.  Which is easier said than done.  I forgot the wet wipes.  Thankfully, someone was on hand to run up stairs and grab some for me.

While your little one is in the highchair and distracted by the snack, paint their foot and print it onto the paper.

Depending on what you are turning the footprint into you will need to plan which way the card goes when you print them.  Half of ours are reindeer, which means the toes go at the top of the page.  The other half are snowmen, meaning the toes go at the bottom.  I have learnt the hard way about orientating the card the right way!

If your little one is old enough, they can help draw on the decorations to turn the footprints into pictures and add any messages.  NC is a little bit too young and would try to eat everything, hopefully next year she will be able to do more.

If you enjoyed doing these footprint Christmas cards, be sure to check out my unicorn decorations and paper plate Christmas trees.

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