Father's Day Poem

This is a nice quick little craft that makes a super sweet keepsake. This one you can do at any age - if you started with a newborn, do it yearly to see the difference a year makes!

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What You'll Need: Non-Toxic paint, plain paper, printer (or nice writing), paint brush.
What To Do:

• If you've got handwriting skills of an 8 year old boy, like myself, print the following poem:

My dirty little fingerprints
I've left on every wall,
And on the drawers and table tops,
I've really marked them all.
But here is one that won't rub off,
I'm giving it to you,
Because I'm so thankful
For a (Mommy, Daddy, Nanny, brother, sister, you get the idea) just like you!

Center it on your paper so that it's going to be easy to get 2 full hand prints (I like putting the poem in the corner).

• Using the paint brush, paint a decent amount of paint onto one of the child's hand (too much paint and it'll probably smudge, too little paint and the print won't show up), stamp the child's hand down and lightly press their fingers and palm down to make a nice clean print.
• Frame it for a special gift or put it in the scrapbook to look at later!

**Baby's are harder to do hand prints with - they always seem to have unbreakable little fists. For the really little guys, you can do it while they are asleep (make sure the paint is warm so it doesn't shock them awake) or you can quickly paint their hand and then hold something out that they want to grab and quickly stamp their hand. If paint is just too messy, you could always trace their hand and colour it in yourself with paint or jazz it up by gluing sequins, sparkles or anything fun inside the hand outline.

HAVE FUN!!!