Create Christmas arts and crafts for homemade, DIY, personalized keepsake cards that your family will treasure with these handmade (and foot-made — lol!) Christmas handprint, footprint, thumbprint, and fingerprint card ideas!
Here’s a list of Christmas card craft ideas, complete with DIY tutorials that share how to make personalized handprint, footprint, thumbprint, and fingerprint art keepsake crafts. Making handprint, footprint, and fingerprint crafts for Christmas is a fun DIY project for the whole family or classroom. Children of all ages enjoy creating Christmas arts and crafts at home and in school. Even adults can find a project or two on this list of Christmas craft ideas to create and send to loved ones. Look through this list of Christmas art projects for even more fun Christmas craft ideas.
Christmas Handprint, Footprint, and Fingeprint Crafts:
Use this fun collection of homemade Christmas handprint, footprint, and fingerprint art and craft ideas to create festive, personalized cards to give or send to friends and relatives during the holidays. Making homemade Christmas cards with children is one of my favorite Christmas traditions, and my daughter and I love coming up with new Christmas card crafts every year. Simple personalized crafts like these make creating Christmas keepsakes for family and extended relatives easy.
Each of the Christmas craft project ideas below is a fantastic gift for parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends. Scroll down for the best Christmas handprint art, footprint crafts, thumbprint, and fingerprint art ideas. Making cards and gifts for everyone on your list is fun with these Christmas card craft ideas. You might also enjoy this list of homemade gifts kids can make. Happy Christmas crafting!
How to Make Handprint, Fingerprint, and Footprint Christmas Crafts for Homemade Christmas Cards:
Here are several personalized Christmas card craft ideas that kids can help make. The Christmas craft ideas in this extensive collection of DIY project tutorials teach how to make Christmas crafts and cards with handprints, footprints, and fingerprints. Personalized crafts are fun Christmas keepsake ideas for the kids to make. Make Christmas cards at home or in the classroom with this list of festive art and craft ideas for kids (and playful adults)! You might also enjoy making watercolor Christmas tree cards.
Below is an excellent collection of the best handmade (and foot-made) Christmas handprint, fingerprint, and footprint Christmas crafts you can use to make Christmas cards. Invite children to stamp their hands, feet, fingers, and thumbs to create quick and easy fingerprint, footprint, or handprint Christmas cards using the festive card craft ideas below. Or, gather inspiration from this list of fingerprint art ideas.
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Fingerprint Christmas Craft Ideas for Handmade Christmas Cards:
Christmas fingerprint art and crafts, like the DIY projects below, are a fun and easy way for kids (or adults) to decorate homemade Christmas cards. Creating Christmas fingerprint art is easy. Follow the step-by-step DIY project tutorial instructions to make Christmas trees, snowmen, reindeer, Christmas lights, wreaths, and elves with your fingerprints. Visit the step-by-step project tutorial for your favorite fingerprint Christmas art ideas below.
Alternatively, you can use a cotton swab or a pencil eraser to create prints for the Christmas cards below. Personalized fingerprint Christmas card ideas are always popular with families. Moms, Dads, and grandparents especially love to receive them from their children. Try these festive Christmas fingerprint art project ideas:
Keepsake Fingerprint Christmas Cards:
- Adorable Fingerprint Snowman Christmas Cards: Learn how to use your thumbs and fingertips to make fingerprint snowman art for several different holidays on Rhythms of Play.
- Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards: When you use your fingerprints to make one Christmas tree card, you end up with two homemade cards–positive and negative fingerprint Christmas cards. Get DIY instructions here: Rhythms of Play.
- Homemade Fingerprint Lights Christmas Tree Cards: Create fingerprint lights on Christmas tree cutouts with the simple Christmas card craft on Rhythms of Play.
- Christmas Wreath Fingerprint Art Cards: Create a fingerprint Christmas wreath with the craft tutorial on Rhythms of Play.
- Fingerprint Christmas Cards: Use your thumbs and fingers to make fingerprint Christmas tree and fingerprint wreath cards with the instructions on Hands On as We Grow.
- Fingerprint Reindeer Cards: Transform fingerprints into reindeer with this Original Image and step-by-step Christmas craft tutorial on Mum in the Madhouse.
- Collection of Fingerprint Christmas Cards: Learn how to make fingerprint elves, reindeer, holly, and fingerprint lights with instructions on Be a Fun Mom.
- Fingerprint Lights Christmas Cards: Discover three ways to make fingerprint light cards on Dayna Banya, Crafty Morning, and Rhythms of Play.
Related: Fingerprint Art Glass Magnets
Christmas Handprint Art Crafts:
Creating Christmas handprint arts and crafts is a fun and easy way to decorate homemade Christmas cards. The Christmas handprint card tutorials below will show you how to make several festive holiday handprint crafts. The DIY projects below teach how to make a Christmas tree, snowmen, the Grinch, an angel, or a reindeer using handprints! Try the fun Christmas handprint arts and crafts ideas with your children this holiday season.
Christmas Keepsake Handprint Art Cards:
- Christmas Carolers Handprint Craft: Transform your handprint into a group of carolers singing. Get the instructions for this simple keepsake craft on Rhythms of Play.
- Santa, Reindeer, and Elf Handprint Christmas Cards: Make handprint cards that look like classic Christmas characters. Get the project tutorial on The Best Ideas for Kids Blog.
- Handprint Angel Christmas Card: Use handprints to create the wings of an angel to make the adorable Christmas cards by The Soccer Mom Blog.
- Snowman Handprint Christmas Card: Make handprint snowman cards for the holidays like the ones in the photo below. Use the ideas in this Original Image and this Tutorial by LAETP to complete this Christmas craft project.
- Upside-Down Handprint Christmas Tree Card: Create these adorable handprint Christmas tree cards with the step-by-step instructions on The Best Ideas for Kids Blog.
- Upright Handprint Christmas Tree Cards: The Christmas craft activity on Glued to my Crafts Blog offers an alternative handprint Christmas tree card idea that is equally adorable.
- The Grinch Handprint Card: Make handprints that look like the Grinch, the grumpy green creature that lives above Whoville and hates Christmas, with this funny homemade holiday card idea by I Heart Arts and Crafts.
- Reindeer Handprint Christmas Card: Use handprints to create the antlers of a reindeer with the creative Christmas card idea on I Heart Crafty Things.
Related: Handprint Art with Thumbprint Heart Craft
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Christmas Footprint Art and Crafts for Christmas Cards:
Here’s another festive collection of Christmas card craft ideas for kids. Christmas footprint crafts are another fun way to decorate handmade (or foot-made — lol) Christmas cards. The baby footprint Christmas card ideas listed below are always a hit with parents and grandparents.
As children grow, making footprint crafts into Christmas cards can be more challenging because their feet grow larger. However, even adults can make footprint Christmas arts and crafts. But you will most likely need to use larger pieces of paper, such as heavyweight colored or bright white cardstock. Make personalized holiday cards and framed gifts with these Christmas footprint art ideas!
Footprint Christmas Card Ideas:
- Footprint Tree Christmas Card: Stamp a toddler’s or preschooler’s footprint onto the face of a card. Then decorate it to look like a Christmas tree with the footprint craft instructions on I Heart Arts and Crafts.
- Baby Footprints Christmas Tree Card: This Video Tutorial by Do It on a Dime Family offers another creative way to use a baby’s footprints to create a Christmas tree.
- MistleToes Christmas Footprint Card: Here’s another creative way to make holiday cards with a baby’s footprints. Stamp footprints to look like mistletoe with the caption “MistleToes” underneath, similar to this example by Maria Georgio.
- Easy Footprint Snowman Christmas Card: Use footprints to make creative snowman crafts in two different ways. Use the footprint snowman craft instructions on Glued to my Crafts Blog or BIFKBlog.
- Footprint Penguin Christmas Cards: Make adorable footprint penguin Christmas crafts with the instructions on My Baba.
- Reindeer Footprint Christmas Card: Make footprint reindeer crafts with the step-by-step tutorial on Emma Owl.
- Footprint Rudolf Christmas Card: The reindeer craft tutorial on Happy Hooligans offers another creative way to make reindeer footprint crafts.
Related: Fingerprint and Thumbprint Heart Art and Gift Ideas
Best Fingerprint, Footprint, and Handprint Christmas Keepsake Card Craft Ideas
We hope you enjoyed this fantastic collection of fingerprint, footprint, and handprint Christmas crafts you can use to make homemade cards with the children in your life. This list of Christmas keepsake crafts and art ideas makes it easy to decorate homemade Christmas cards.
Friends and family love receiving homemade Christmas handprint, footprint, and fingerprint crafts made by the children they love. You might enjoy our roundup of fingerprint and thumbprint art ideas and crafts.
For even more fun ideas, be sure to pop over to have a look at this list of fun Christmas traditions for a magical holiday! You may also enjoy our winter bucket list filled with arts, crafts, and activities you can do with the kids for wintertime fun!
Wishing you a happy, safe, and fun holiday season. Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author of this creative roundup of homemade Christmas keepsake cards kids can make HERE, and Rhythms of Play HERE!
Christmas Ornament Crafts:
- DIY Angel Ornaments
- Baby Jesus Christmas Ornaments
- Orange Slice Ornaments
- Twig Tree Ornaments
- Rustic Alphabet Wood Slice Ornaments
- Acorn Cap and Marble Ornaments
- DIY Snowman Ornaments
- Beaded Snowflake Ornaments
- DIY Christmas Ornaments
More Christmas Crafts and Gift Ideas:
- Homemade Gift Ideas Kids Can Make
- Ultimate Family Gift Guide: Readymade and Homemade Gift Ideas
- Christmas Art Projects and Painting Ideas
- Family Christmas Traditions for a Magical Holiday
- New Year’s Traditions and Celebration Ideas
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