Baby Arts and Crafts: Jesus in a footprint manger!

Today I have a Christmas craft project you can make with your little one!! And all you need is some card, poster paint, some tissue paper, a scrap of shiny gold paper and a metallic pen and you can make this Christmas card:

This card starts life by printing your little ones cutey footprint onto some card. Next using some brown tissue paper/card glue too strips to create the legs if the manger. Once you've done that glue some pieces of yellow tissue paper to create some straw. The baby Jesus was made from some scraps of card and brown tissue paper. Here's a close up:

Finally cut a large star out of gold paper and write a sentiment and draw some stars with a gold metallic pen.

A very inexpensive card with a lot if sentimental value!

Baby Arts and Crafts: Footprint Pears!

On a Friday we go to a baby group ran at our local SureStart centre called Sunbeams. It's absolutely fantastic!

Each of the babies get their own scrapbook and every week the staff organise a crafty project which involves printing their hands or feet! It's so cute and a lovely keepsake!

I'm going to try and take a pic of each project we do to share with you guys and give you some ideas of arts and crafts with your little one!

So the first project we did was 'A pair of pears':

Two baby footprints to make the pears. We cut out some leaves out of green paper and used some pens to draw on some stalks!

We accompanied these pears with this cute little poem:

Pears are green

Tasty and sweet,

Although not as nice

as this pair of feet!