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Baby's feet are just one of the cutest things ever, aren't they? Wouldn't it be lovely to remember how sweet and adorable they are by taking a print of them and creating some Valentine's crafts with baby feet prints?
St. Valentine's Day is celebrated on the 14th of February each year and is the day where we let the people that we love know just how much we are about them.
Making a print of your baby's foot will give you a permanant record of just how tiny and cute your little ones feet are. And as they naturally form a heart shape they are just the perfect thing to use to create a beautiful handcrafted Valentine's day card or gift.
So here are some baby footprint Valentine's Day craft ideas, along with instructions on how to take the perfect baby footprints.
Here are some adorable DIY Valentines Day crafts that you can make with baby feet.
Choose a simple red paint to create a canvas picture with the word love which uses the baby foot prints as the letter "V".
If you can persuade baby to make a handprint as well as two footprints, this Love Handprint Art would be a fabulous idea to make for Valentine's Day.
This is really beautiful. If you want to try this, you would need to make the footprints first and draw the heart shape afterwards rather than trying to aim your child's foot inside a heart shape!
If your foot prints are not evenly spaced, you can still make an attractive heart design for a baby's first Valentine's card.
If you are clever at caligraphy you could try this idea by writing over your baby's footprint once it has dried.
If you don't have a lot of prints to practice on, you could photograph or scan your best images to make extra copies.
Your baby's feet may naturally fall into a heart design, but there are lots of other pictures that can be created from the footprints. How about turning your child's feet into a tasty strawberry?
Another design that can be created really easily from a baby footprint is a butterfly. This Valentine's canvas uses the feet to create the wings of the butterfly.
The person who made this card had cleverly visualised it as an apple, and the message "I love you to my core" fits perfectly.
If you can only get a good print of one of your baby's feet, turn it into a love bug!
Another way to preserve your baby's footprints is by pressing them into salt dough to make an three-dimensional impression of them. This is a really beautiful idea where the footprints are painted to make them really stand out.
This footprint card is beautifully presented with a lacy edging applied.
Red roses are a very popular symbol of Valentines Day, and if your little one likes the whole printing process, you could make your baby's feet into a whole bunch of red roses.
A framed picture would make a lovely Valentine's Day gift. This idea includes a sweetly thought out message and some red buttons as a trim too.
Create a double footprint card with a parent to emphasise just how precious and tiny a baby's foot is.
This beautiful wall sign would look fantastic hung up all year round. Make sure that you sand the wood down so that baby doesn't get any splinters in their foot!
Before you make your craft ideas, you are going to need to create your baby footprints. If you've never done this before it can be a bit intimidating, but here some tips to make printing your baby's feet as easy as possible.
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This video shows you how to make a print of your baby's foot and then create a lovely butterfly print with your baby's footprints.
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