My littles love to get messy! What child doesn't? So we decided to make more hand print art. This time it's a tutu, appealing to my daughter's love of ballerinas and the color pink. When we sit down to do art together, I always have an easy project the kids can work on, in addition to the final project. It works out best if everything is prepared ahead of time. We paint her hands together and make the prints for the final piece, then I let her go to town with painting her hands and making hand and finger prints on another sheet of paper while I work on the finished product. To speed things along, I like to use my embossing heater to help the paint to dry more quickly. She loves seeing her hand prints up on the wall!
To make the bodice of the tutu I marked the width of her two little hands, and drew the shape of a bodice on the back of a piece of pink polka dot paper. Cut that out and glued it on. Then I found 2 widths of the same color ribbon. I folded the edges over and glued them to the back of the ribbon, and glued the rest to the paper, using white liquid glue. I used the smaller width ribbon to tie a bow. I tacked that on with some more liquid white glue. The final product turned out pretty cute! I have to admit, I love to see her hand prints on the wall too.
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