If you love your baby’s little hands and feet, make it a priority to capture their handprints and footprints as newborns in keepsakes like prints for their walls or baby scrapbooks with their birth details. But for the holidays, if you have a baby at home, you can also turn your baby’s cute handprint into a keepsake ornament that will hang on your tree or decorate your home year after year. Salt ornaments are popular, but if you don’t feel like baking anything, you can try this baking soda clay recipe instead.
Reasons to Make a Baby Handprint Ornament
This is a great craft to do for many reasons. Some of them include: It’s so easy and inexpensive to make. All you need are a few common kitchen ingredients. This is a wonderful way to preserve memories. A homemade ornament is special and meaningful. Every year, when you look back at that cute little baby hand for your little one’s first Christmas, you will remember their baby years with the magic innocence of babies. Older children will love this craft, too. If you have older children, they may enjoy getting in on the fun with this craft. Not only is it easy to make, but they will have so much fun decorating and painting the ornament when it’s ready to go.
Ingredients to Make a Baby Handprint Ornament
For this craft, you will need:
1 1/4 cups baking soda3/4 cup cornstarch3/4 cup waterA ribbon for hanging the ornamentWax paperSomething to press the dough out, like a rolling pin or flat-bottomed bowlPaint or glitter to decorate the ornament (optional)
Those ingredients are enough to make one ornament, so if you want to make more than one hanging ornament, you will need to double the recipe or make individual batches for each ornament.
