How to Make a Handprint Poinsettia for Christmas

Handprint crafts are the best because they mark a point in history: Each design is unique to the age when your child makes it. Once your child makes this handprint poinsettia, you can keep it and display it year after year. If you have your child create a new one every year, you can compare the poinsettias to see just how much she has grown in one year. These poinsettias look great on a refrigerator, bedroom wall, cork board, front door or living room wall.

Things You'll Need

• Green construction paper
• Red construction paper
• Yellow construction paper
• Paper Plate
• Glue stick
• Gold glitter
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Trace your hand on some green construction paper. For this project, you'll make eight green hands.

2. Cut the hands out and glue them around the edges of the paper plate, working from the outside inward. The hands can be spaced a little bit apart around the paper plate. Glue the bottom half and allow the top half to hang over the edges of the plate.

3. Trace your hand on some red construction paper. You will need 11 to 12 red hands.

4. Cut the hands out and glue six of them around the center of the plate. Glue them around in a circle, but leave room in the middle for more hands.

5. Add all but one of the rest of your red hands, almost in the center. Glue these in a circle, too, and try to fill in where any gaps may be. You don't want to be able to see the paper plate when you are all done.

6. Add your final hand to the center of the paper plate. Glue it in place.

7. Cut out about six small round yellow circles for the middle of the poinsettia plant. Glue them in the middle of the red hand in the middle of the plate.

8. Add some glue to the round yellow circles and sprinkle with gold glitter. Shake excess glitter off into a trash can.

9. Wait for the glue to dry and hang the poinsettia up on your refrigerator, wall or any other display area.

Tips & Warnings

• Use a stapler if you don't have glue.

• If you don't have colored construction paper, you can always use white typing paper and color it green, red and yellow.

• Supervise small children with the scissors.