November 12, 2022

Snowman Handprint Ornament

Make a beautiful keepsake Christmas Craft this holiday season in December with this really cute snowman handprint ornament. This fun-to-make handprint snowman ornament is perfect for capturing your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students precious hands with a holiday snowman handprint art project you will treasure for years to come.

Snowman handprint ornament

Make a beautiful DIY handart ornament this December. This easy ornament craft will not only brighter your Christmas tree, but also makes a lovely kid made Christmas gift that will be a precious keepsake memory for a lifetime. To make this adorable snowman handprint ornament you just need a few simple materials and 5 minutes! This Christmas project for kids is a MUST! Try this handprint ornament with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students.

To make this project you will need a few simple materials:

solid colored ornament ball (can be shatterproof or not, in whatever color you like best)
acrylic paint (this paint covers better than Crayola washable paint)
paint brush to make the details like carrot nose, scarf, stick arms, top hat, etc.
baby wipe to easily clean painted hands (optional)

Handprint Snowman Ornament

This came out so cute I just had to share it with you!!! First, paint your kids hand white (with Acrylic paint, the Crayola washable stuff just won’t cover very well).

Put the ornament on your child’s hand and have them put their fingers up carefully. Put fingers back out and pull up ornament. Allow to dry (takes less than an hour!). Hint: If you put the balls on lids it keeps them steady.

super cute and fun to make keepsake ornament

The painting itself was a lot of fun! We used acrylic paint (we tried several different kinds, but this produced the best results). Paint your child’s hand white; have them up their hand and instruct them to stay still. Place the ball in their hands and press their fingers carefully on the ball. Have them release their grip and carefully life out the ball to reveal a cute white handprint on your ball. This was surprisingly easy to do!

We set ours in canning jar lids (perfect size) to allow the snow man to dry before adding more details.

Now using a small paintbrush and various colors of acrylic paint add the snowman hats, scarves, buttons, coal eyes, carrot noses, and twig arms. Last, but not least, make sure you write the child’s name and age on the back so you don’t forget this precious moment in time.

If you are making the project with 3-5 year olds, you will need to help with adding the details. My 4-year-old was not able to do the detailed painting herself, but she did enjoy painting an ornament freestyle.

Snowman Handprint

Didn’t they turn out cute!?! I love that you can see their handprint when you look at it from the bottom. If you look straight on, it just looks like 5 cute snowman on a snowy ground. The 9 pack of plain ornaments was $2.50 at Walmart. Wouldn’t this make a WONDERFUL gift for a grandparent!? ! Plus I am keeping one of each as a keepsake.

Snowman handprint ornaments

Older students like my 6-year-old can add the details to their ornaments themselves. They will be so proud of the cute handprint snowman and fingerprint snowman they crate. I am keeping this ornament for me!! What a precious keepsake!!

Handprint Ornament

Even if the fingers get smushed together (like one of my 1-year-old daughters did) you still make something cute….something like this. Although I’m sure a more crafty person might have some better looking solutions, but it worked for me. We made Rudolph reindeer with Santa Clause and his sled full of toys behind him.

Snowman Activities for Kids

S is for Snowman Theme
Easy Circle Sticker Snowman Craft
Plastic Cup Snowman Craft
EASY Glue Snowman Crafts for Preschoolers
Amazingly EASY Puffy Snow Paint Recipe
LOTS of Snowflake Crafts A to Z
Super Cool Snow Volcano Science Experiment
Melting Snowman Slime Recipe
Cute Snow globe Craft for Kids
YUM! How to Make Snow Ice Cream with just 2 ingredients!

Snowman Printables

Looking for snowman worksheets and educational snowman activity ideas? You will love these resources!

Build-a-Snowman Winter CVC Words Activity
Snowman Addition Clip Cards
Snowman Counting Cards
Free Snowman Worksheet Pack with LOTS of pages
Winter Counting Worksheets
Free Winter Writing Prompts PDF
Multiplication Snowman Activity
Snowman Tracing Letters A to Z
Snowflake Winter Compound Words
Build a Snowman Sequencing Worksheets
Snowman Printables Counting Book
Winter Worksheets for Preschoolers

Winter Printables

Snowman Word Family Spinners
Snowman Math Craft for practicing addition and subtraction
Winter Telling Time Worksheets
Snowflake Dab the Letter
Snowman Activities for Preschool – Count to 10
Cute Snowman Shape Puzzles
Free Snowman Coloring Pages

Kids are going to flip when they make they make their own spinning Christmas tree science project. This easy electronics project is perfect for December because it combines a Christmas craft and a Christmas science experiment to make one EPIC Christmas STEM project for kinderarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade students. This festive, holiday Christmas activity for kids is a must try this year!

Marbelized-Crayon-Christmas-Ornament-Craft-for-Kids

super cute, free printable, Christmas Worksheets are so much fun? Preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students will stay engaged as they practice Christmas math, learn abcs, work on beginning sounds, fill in the vowel, letter recognition, make a printable book, play I spy, writing prompts, and more in December. This Simply download the Christmas worksheets pdf and you are ready to make learning fun this holiday season!

Christmas Activities for Families

Rudolph Races
Spinning Christmas Tree Christmas Science Experiments
Paper Christmas Tree Ornaments
Super Cute, Free Printable Christmas Worksheets
200 Epic Christmas Crafts and Activities
Free Christmas Tracing Sheets
Beautiful Melted Crayon Ornaments
Skip Counting Christmas Worksheets
Free Christmas Around the World eBook
Preschool Christmas Crafts – Printable Hats
YUM! Best Gingerbread Cookies Recipes
Polar Express Worksheets
See LOTS more Christmas activities for kids of all ages

Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!