{sentimental treasures}

We did our first Christmas craft with the boys tonight and I'm so excited about it! I've had the idea in my head to do handprint ornaments for about a month now, and to actually make them was so fun, and super easy.

I used an air-drying dough/clay from Hobby Lobby and rolled it out with a rolling pin. The hard part was getting squirmy baby hands to be still long enough to imprint them into the clay, but they were actually really good for me. After doing their handprints, I used letter stamps to put their initials inside the palms. The lid to the clay container was a great template to make them a nice circle shape, and a straw was the perfect hole-maker for a ribbon or ornament hook. Once they have dried I'm going to paint them and glaze them. I can't wait to hang them on the tree!