Christmas Handprint Printables

Celebrate the holiday season with these Christmas handprint printables. All 10 designs are free to download and make the sweetest keepsakes for baby books or memory boxes.

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You can even make a few extras and send them to friends, family, or loved ones this holiday season!

The designs work perfectly for hand and footprints of all sizes, so you can use these printables for kids of any age. Just don’t forget to write your child’s name and the date on the back!

Supplies Needed

• Christmas Handprint Art Printables – get them sent to you at the bottom of this post!

• Non-Toxic Tempera Paint – green, red, white, brown, pink, blue

• Paintbrushes – medium-sized

• Scissors

• Gluestick

• Markers – regular markers, or paint markers

How to Make Christmas Handprint Art

1. Set up your painting area.

• If doing the footprint art designs, bring a stool or child-sized chair to your painting area.
• Select your designs, print them on white paper or cardstock, and set aside.
• Gather up your non-toxic tempera paints – we used red, green, white, brown, pink, and light blue.
• Fill a large bowl with warm, soapy water and set it on the floor at your workstation. You’ll also need some clean rags, towels, baby wipes, and paper towels.
• Having this all set up ahead of time will make clean-up a smooth process.

2. Paint the handprint designs.

Apply non-toxic tempera paint onto your child’s palm. We used white for Santa’s beard, green for the Christmas tree and wreath, red for the ornaments and one of the Christmas lights, pink for “Joy”, and light blue for the other Christmas light.

Guide your child’s hand to the paper and help them gently press their hand onto the paper to make a handprint.

Have them remove their hand from the paper and use a brush to fill in any spots that might have been missed. Help them wash their hand with warm, soapy water.

Set the page aside to dry completely.

3. Paint the footprint designs.

Have your child sit on the short stool or child-sized chair. Paint the bottom of their foot with non-toxic tempera paint – we used white for the snowman, green for the Christmas tree, and brown for the gingerbread man and Rudolph.

Put the paper on the floor and guide their foot to stamp onto the page.

Lift their foot off the page and help them wash off the paint in the bowl of warm, soapy water. Set the page aside to dry completely.

4. Add the paper cut-out details.

Print out the add-on designs and cut out the shapes needed for each design.

Use a glue stick to attach the pieces onto the foot or handprint.

Use markers, paint, or paint markers to draw on any final details.

For the snowman, we added the eyes, mouth, buttons and stick arms with markers.

For the Christmas tree footprint with truck, cut out the star and stump and glue to paper. You can also draw these on with paint or markers.

For the gingerbread man footprint, cut out the arms and bow tie and glue to the footprint. Then use a marker to add the eyes, mouth and buttons.

For the handprint Christmas tree, glue the star to the top and you can add some lines around the star with a yellow marker. You can even decorate the tree with fingerprint bulbs.

For the reindeer footprint, cut out and glue the nose on and add the eyes and mouth with a black marker. You can also use a red pom pom for the nose.

Your Christmas handprint art is complete!

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