Finding books to share with a baby for their First Christmas isn’t always easy – especially ones that they can interact with and will remain a favourite for years to come. Spot’s First Christmas
Capturing that First Christmas is also part of the magic – I never know whether it’s too look back on with the child or more for you but together and if you have older children getting them involved as well you can start creating your Christmas Memories. Creating something that lasts and captures them at this moment in time so we created some hanging ornaments for our little friend to celebrate her First Christmas. So a welcome to F and her mum Sam who helped to create these Spot’s First Christmas Ornaments for F.
Materials needed for First Christmas Ornament
Air Drying Clay
Stamps
Chalk
Straw
Ribbon
Bowl
How to create a First Christmas Ornament
After sitting down together and reading Spot’s First Christmas we set out creating the ornaments – start of softening your clay up – if you can’t find air drying clay then you could use Salt Dough – but you need to remember to coat this with an acrylic varnish of some sort to stop moisture getting into the dough which could happen with ornaments stored in attics.
Once the clay is softened roll out flat you will need it to be just under 1cm thick to get a good imprint in as well as to avoid it cracking. Use a bowl to cut out a nice circle from.
We created hand and foot ornaments – with very young babies feet are much easier as their hands don’t open easily however as they get older you can open and hold their hand in place to create the imprint.
With their bare foot press into the clay – we found it easier to do this with 2 people – perfect for a family activity, mum, dad and new baby, or you and older siblings. Apply a little pressure to the foot and then remove.
To do the hand we again worked together opening the hand up (and found this easier to do with F laying on her stomach) and then applying pressure to each finger carefully and then the hand to get an imprint in the clay.
Whilst the clay was still wet we wrote F’s name in the clay using our Melissa & Doug Deluxe Alphabet Stamp Set
To create the hole for the ribbon to thread through use a straw.
Leave to dry for a while – the air drying clay will change from grey to a very very light grey almost white.
To emphasise the imprints I used a little chalk to brush them over and bring a little colour and then threaded them with ribbon to hang.
Book based Christmas Ornaments
This is part of a series of 70+ posts over last week and this sharing book based Christmas Ornaments made by the kids organised by Mama Miss.
Join us today and these other fabulous bloggers with their Kid Made Christmas Book Based Ornaments.
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