Make A Sweet Hand Print Birdhouse, step by step

I was not planning to post about this little craft that Clara and I whipped up together, but then we got a photo of John’s Granny grinning and holding our creation and I could not assist but put together a little post about it over here – simply so we will consistently remember it. Here is what we made: a sweet little birdhouse, complete with Clara’s hand-prints on the roof.

It was originally painted dark red all over (from HomeGoods, where it was $4.99) but Granny is simply such a sunny lady that we thought it would be a lively activity to paint it some happier colors and mark it up with some Clara-hands before sending it off to West Virginia. We simply used some white paint for the facade and some yellow paint on the roof to cover all the original red paint. Some of our lines were a little wiggly, buy I think that is part of the charm.

Then I coated Clara’s hands with white paint and we had so much lively smashing them into the roof four times (two right handed prints are on the right side, and two left handed prints are on the left). After it dried I sprayed it with clear outdoor sealant to protect it from the elements (three thin coats helped me feel like it was locked in there good) and then we signed the bottom with a Sharpie and brought in the date.

A little while later, John’s mom and dad took it to Granny’s house and snapped this cute photo of her with it. Clara Enjoyed seeing Granny holding her birdhouse creation, and I am so glad we got to make such a lively little gift together.

If you are looking for more straightforward projects that involve handprints, our friends at Childhood Magic have a ton of kid handprint project ideas that are especially cute. We are especially charmed by the Strawberry Handprint Card the Handprint Butterfly Craft.

Are you folks doing any kid-crafts these days? Sometimes they are my go-to projects of all.