Making Memories for Grandmas and Grandpas
My children’s grandparents are a big part of our life. My husband’s parents live a 20-minute car ride away from us and help with watching the girls after school. By contrast, my family lives in Paris, France, and mostly interacts with my daughters via Skype, though they usually also visit in person every year or so.
As a result, we always try to get the grandparents meaningful gifts for Christmas. For my husband’s parents, because they help so much. For my family, because they’re so far. And of course, both care tremendously about our daughters. This year, I got them canvas-wrapped pictures of my daughters. But I also wanted to give them something the girls actually made. Enter Jake & Ella’s Handprint wall sets.
First, we laid out the canvas squares where the prints would go:
Then we got the white finger paint ready:
My 6-year-old daughter placed her hand in the finger paint:
White paint is fun!
Here is one of her handprints:
And here is the finished set, with her prints and her sister’s:
I was a little worried about how my 2-year-old would do with them, but it turned out to be fine. The whole activity took about 30 minutes. Can’t wait to see my in-laws’ reaction when they unwrap this at Christmas! It was so easy–and fun!
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