Activity #484: Facilitate thank you notes with a personal *touch*

by Whitney

in Crafty, Free/Cheap, Month 12

Fingerpainting for toddlersCarolyn sent us this activity for the brave:

My son couldn’t help write the thank you notes for his first birthday but he could help make the cards! I put him in his high chair, wearing only a diaper.

I got out some heavy paper and non-toxic, washable finger paints, squirted a little paint on the paper, and let him have at it! He had a great time and the cards were beautiful. I thought this might be a fun idea for Christmas thank you notes.

{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Auntie Shannon January 3, 2008 at 12:04 pm

The cards turned out fantastic! Great job, Simon!

Debbie January 3, 2008 at 4:35 pm

I gave my son a rubber stamp pad with a star shape and some pretty gold ink & let him go to town on our cards. They turned out beautiful :)

Colleen January 6, 2008 at 7:50 pm

In a similar vein, I had my one-year-old stamp hand and footprints on archival-quality colored paper, then cut the paper down to card size. The thank you notes turned out really cute and it’s a good memento of how small my little wonderful is this year.

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