If you’d like to attempt the whole calendar deal, here are a few of my tips □ My Tips To Simplify The Process: If your kids love to paint, this could just be a fun indoor project during cold weather months. I’ve seen a bunch of “free calendar” deals popping up here and there as well, so you might even be able to get a great deal!Īlso, you can certainly still do some fun handprint and footprint crafts even if you don’t turn them into a calendar. I know it’s already past the Christmas gift-giving time - but there is still plenty of time left to order a 2016 calendar (either for yourself or for a family member). I also think I’ll laminate the original paintings so they last for a while (they are just so stinkin’ cute!) Nora had SOOOOOOOO much fun working on this calendar, and I’m glad I ordered an extra one to keep at our house. It’s definitely not perfect… but I was really happy with how it turned out, especially considering how squirmy Simon and James were! I did include a collage of pictures on the front cover, but the monthly photos were replaced with cute handprint and footprint artwork. I figured that we all had plenty of photos of the kids… it might be fun to do handprints and footprints for a change… and I was so surprised that Nora didn’t speak a word of our special project to any of the 4 grandparents (she sees them all regularly). It was a labor of love (and a huge mess at times) but we had lots of fun and I’m so glad we did it. We made calendars for each set of grandparents - and instead of using pictures, we created 12 different handprint and footprint paintings for each of the 12 months. Throughout the month of November, the kids and I worked on an “extra special Christmas present project” that we couldn’t share until after all our Christmas gifts had been given.
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