Handprint Heart Craft

Check out this precious handprint heart craft! It’s simple to make and can be done pretty quickly.

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Supplies:

White cardstock paper
Stamp pads
Markers
Baby wipes
Laminator
Laminating sleeves

OPTIONAL: If you want to mount the handprints on colored cardstock paper, you’ll need:
Glue sticks
Scissors
Colored cardstock paper

Instructions:

If you’re making these handprint hearts for Mother’s Day, I’d start by discussing the traits of a loving mother or special woman.

Depending on the situations your students live in, you may want to let kids make 2 handprint hearts (if many students have moms and step moms). Explain that even if a biological mother isn’t active in their lives, Mother’s Day is a time to honor the women that are special to you and care about you – could be an aunt, grandma, teacher, etc.

Click the heart templates below to enlarge and download them (there’s one with words and one blank). Print your preferred templates on white cardstock paper.

If you’re doing this with older kids whose hands are larger than the heart, you could skip printing the template and just give them a piece of white cardstock paper. They can stamp their hands in a heart shape without the outline.

Have each kiddo hold their hand flat with the palm up. An adult should push down on their hand using a stamp pad. Push down a bunch of times so their hand is fully covered with ink. (If you’re doing this with babies, I’d stamp their feet instead of their hands. Just put ink all over their feet, then push the paper against their feet.)

Let the student press their hand down on a heart template. I put our paper on a clipboard so it was hard and even, but a classroom table would work too (we were outside, so the clipboard was easiest).

Give the students a baby wipe to wipe their first hand. Repeat the process with their other hand, then send them to the bathroom to wash their hands.

You can either leave the white cardstock paper whole and decorate the white sheet, or cut out the gray heart and glue the heart on a piece of colored cardstock paper. I cut out the hearts and mounted them on colored cardstock paper, just for a little more fun. If you are short on volunteers or time, I’d leave the heart on the white cardstock paper and not cut it out.

Let kids decorate the piece of paper using markers. You could encourage them to write a message to their mom/influential woman at the bottom or on the back. Write the student’s name and the year somewhere on the paper (we wrote them at the bottom right).

Laminate each student’s handprint craft.

These turned out adorable and are something I will certainly cherish! Doing handprints with stamp pads instead of paint is really nice because you don’t have to wait for the ink to dry before laminating.

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