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Make Beautiful Gifts Printing Your Baby Handprints on Fabrics




An interesting way of maintaining an album of your child’s growing years

is by Printing or Painting Baby Handprint Crafts on Fabrics. Baby handprints remain as treasured memories of the fast moving childhood days. You can reminisce the short and enjoyable bygone days later in life by looking through your album. Your child, now grown up, will also enjoy going through the contents of their childhood album.

You can also make excellent gifts for grandparents and other relatives by making craft

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items from handprints of your baby. These gifts are very cute and appealing. You can also keep these as records to show your children how small they were once upon a time. However, it is not a simple job to trace out your child’s handprint on to a fabric or any other medium too.

The best way for making a good craft item is to get a clear handprint of your child’s hand. Cover your child’s hand with lots of fabric or acrylic paint and press it on to the fabric firmly. Keep your child’s hand in the same position for few minutes. In addition, keep the fingers apart while pressing on to the fabric to get a good clear shape and impression. [See Tip #1 on Home Page]

You can make many different craft gifts or mementos by using these handprints innovatively. Place your baby’s photograph in the middle of a wide mat and surround it with many such baby handprints. Otherwise, you can place a single handprint at each corner of the photograph. Grandparents cherish receiving this type gift with the handprints of the beloved little ones.

You can make a baby pillow cover by using fabric covered with baby handprints. Acrylic or Fabric paint can bring out clear handprints of your baby on the fabric. You can use this fabric to make a pillow cover for your young one. If it is possible to put the fabric through your computer printer, you can further add a picture, poem, or any special birth information on the pillow cover. You can also keep this cover as a memento.

There are many ways of combining the handprints of your baby
with other craft ideas to create something special. Another good idea is to make a quilt from these handprints. Trace out your child’s hand every year on to a single Fabric Square 6”X6” and later make it into a quilt. Each square of the quilt contains your child’s handprint of a specific year. Similarly, make small handicrafts from your child’s handprints and hang them on the walls of your child’s room.