Our Christmas gifts for grandparents and great grandparents this year was a homemade calendar. With the New Year rapidly approaching, everyone needs new calendars. I also wanted to make something with Buddy and Sweetpea's hand prints or foot prints for presents but didn't know what I wanted to create. I ran across an idea for a hand print calendar and adapted it for us. Each month has a verse that coordinates with the hand prints or foot prints and then Jon designed the family pictures and the calendar portion. I am pretty sure that all recipients enjoyed...and that I am going to enjoy mine hanging in our kitchen! Here is what we did...
January was a snowflake pattern on blue paper so the white paint would show up clearer and Psalm 51:7 was the scripture.
Hearts for February and Jeremiah 29:13 was the coordinating scripture.
March is butterflies for new creations with 2 Corinthians 5:17.
April showers bring... so we made rain clouds. I chose to use Sweetpea's foot because it was very hard to keep an 8 month old's fingers open to make a hand print with multiple colors. Buddy, on the other hand, loved using two colors. Isaiah 45:8
...May flowers! Song of Solomon 2:12
June is probably my favorite. Goldfishes with the "fishers of men" verse, Matthew 4:19
We used Buddy's hand to make the flag and Sweetpea's to make fireworks! Psalm 119:45
We made a sun for August and the verse was Psalm 57:6.
September is another favorite. Buddy's hand and arm made up the tree trunk and branches. His finger prints were the apples. Sweetpea's feet were the leaves. Jon and I couldn't decide on one verse so we used Proverbs 7:2 and Isaiah 55:12.
Beautiful feet for October. Romans 10:15
November, of course, is Thanksgiving turkeys. Buddy again enjoyed the multiple colors for his fingers but we kept Sweetpea's a solid brown for ease of painting. Psalm 136:1 and Psalm 100:4 are the verses we chose for thanksgiving but there are lots more to choose from.
And finally, Christmas tree feet for December with Luke 2:11 and Isaiah 9:6. I added the extra decorations to make the trees more "Christmasy".
If you are looking at making your own calendar or something similar, here are a few links that I used to get ideas.
What a cute idea!!! I'm sure everyone loved them! Such a great keepsake!
ReplyDeleteThanks! We had fun making them and it will definitely go in our "special box" when the year is done.
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