Hands & Feet Tracing

(Art & Craft)

I could recall how hard and what a failure it was to make newborn handprint. It was a total waste since she didn’t want it. She rejected the idea and I could get no single print. What a difference 2.5 years make, she now enjoy and even ask me to help her voluntarily.

Materials:

-paper

-pencil

-your toddler

I was writing on a piece of paper and strategically left another paper on a clipboard next to me, open to blank. As she watched me writing, she took my pencil to draw around my writings and soon attracted to the other blank page. After some time, I discovered her struggling to trace her own hands. She looked at me, and I offered some help to trace her left hand for her.

Once it was done, her eyes lit and she kept playing her left hand on the traced one on the paper as if she was comparing how similar (or different) they were.

She put her right hand on the paper. It surely more difficult for her to trace it using left hand since she’s a righty. So, I offer her help again, this one fully me tracing her right hand.

She was distracted and started to read a book while in a lying position. I bent her knees, traced her feet on the paper and the print is done. She was surprised when I showed her. She knew it was hers. Y began to stand on her traced feet, wiggled her toes, bent her back forward and wiggled her fingers on the traced hands. For a bit, she sat, and compared her real hands-feet to its traced one on the paper.