We wanted to commemorate the occasion, and it just so happens we had something suitable that we'd been meaning to get round to since Christmas. My sister, The Excited One, gave us a baby hand print/ foot print kit.
The kit contains:
- some lightweight modeling material that I don't know the name of
- a tiny rolling pin, which turned out to be too little for what I wanted
- a circular cutter, which we discarded
- a little red ribbon, which now lives in our craft box
You're supposed to make two circles with a print on each (one hand and one foot) to hang on your tree, but it's September so there is no tree. Also it's taken us so long to get around to this that The Youngling's foot prints are too big to fit in the circle provided.
I pressed the modelling stuff out into a flat splodgey shape, and The Artivist stood The Youngling on the splodge. One at a time, I pressed his feet into the stuff to make footprints.
The Youngling was fascinated by what we were doing, and looked pretty pleased with the result, though it is difficult to know if he really understands what we we've made as his only word is 'boop'.
We left the prints to dry overnight and then I painted them. We went for yellow, with orange for the prints themselves. The Youngling likes yellow, plus it looks like footprints in the sand.
Once that was dry, The Artivist wrote a note on it so we'd always remember when The Youngling first walked.
Finally, I glued a fitting onto the back and hung it on the wall amongst our family pictures.
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