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Traditional baby handprint crafts are a fun way to preserve memories of your baby. All you need to make traditional baby handprint crafts are some easily available craft items and loads of imagination. Crafters have used these methods and variations of them for centuries.

You can put your baby's handprints on ceramic tiles, clay, fabric or paper.

Other traditional baby handprint crafts include casting the babys handprint in plaster. For this smear, some oil on the babys hand so that the plaster does not stick to the skin. Next, put the hand in the plaster in a container or a tray and press it gently so that the full imprint appears. Remove the hand and clean it thoroughly of plaster.

You can carve in the babys name and birth date in the wet plaster before it sets. Use your creativity to beautify the traditional baby handprint crafts with accessories. You can insert a straw in the wet plaster so that you can insert a ribbon and create a wall hanging out of your babys handprints. Once the plaster sets, remove it from the container and it is ready to put on show.

You can use colored paper to make traditional baby handprint crafts. For this you need paper plates or bright yellow and orange colored paper, scissors, gum, markers and wobbly eyes or nose if you so desire. Cut out the inner circle for the sun and trace the babys hands on to the colored paper for the rays of sunshine. Trace the handprints a number of times on the yellow and orange paper, cut them out, and then stick them alternately on to the inner circle. Make a face with the marker, stick the eyes, and nose to