I need a creative gift idea for grandpa using hand/feet prints.?

Question

It is grandpa's 60th birhtday. We have 6 young children in the family. We plan on printing the kids hands and feet on a piece of oak paper. We need some cute sayings that we can put on it. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I think a neat gift using hand and feet prints would be to get some paint and paint the bottoms of each, press them on to some paper making a shape of some sort, cutting out the middle and placing a special photo in the middle. Depending on the size of the paper you use, you could then place the whole thing in a frame.

Answer 2

My wifes father loves gardening and we gave him a gift similar to what you describe. I assembled a small 30" square frame, 1½ deep with a plywood bottom. I got some bags of concrete from our home center and filled the frame with it. While the concrete was still a little soft, we pressed our kids hand and footprints into it and then had them scratch thier names undreneath thier prints. After the concrete hardened we striped the wood form and grandpa placed the custom stepping stone at the entrance to his garden. Our own personalized walk of fame.

Answer 3

check out on the internet---there's a really cute poem out there about Grandpa's hands - if you could find that it would be great to have that in the center of all the hands. do a search for Grandpa Gene's Hands - you may want to edit it a little to meet your situation...

Answer 4

I like amalthea's answer. It's cute. To find poems etc on the internet search by footprint/handprint poems. I'd also search by grandpa poems.

Answer 5

One Father's Day my kids made t-shirts for their grandfathers. They dipped their feet in different colors of fabric paint and walked over two plain white t-shirts. We used a different color paint for each child. Then I painted on in puffy fabric paint, "My Grandkids Walk All Over Me". At the bottom were the kids' names.