Fun ways to document your child’s growth – Everyone that has kids or nieces and nephews knows how fast they grow. You could buy a growth chart but they are kind of boring. You can mark directly on the wall but you won’t be able to take the wall with you if you ever move. After thinking
and thinking on what I could do to document my own child’s growth beyond the baby book and growth charts I came up with a couple ideas.
The easiest and smallest way to document growth is to simply make projects out of tracing their hands and feet or painting their hands and feet and putting them on something. I do tons of these projects but got to thinking that they don’t really show how tall my daughter is getting.
The first idea I have is quiet simple. With a big roll of plain white butcher paper roll it out until your child can lie completely on the paper. Trace around your child and have them color the paper in. Now you can hang it in your favorite room or simply let it hang on their wall in their bedroom.
For a more abstract design, take the silhouette of your child outside and tape it to a piece of scrap plywood. Fill up water balloons with home made paint or watered down paint from the store. Give your child the balloons with the instructions to throw them at their silhouette. Kids will love this idea!!! Let it dry out in the sun before hanging it on your walls.
For decorations for the outdoors, instead of paper have your child lie down on a sheet of plywood and trace around them. Make sure and tell them to be still so they don’t get splinters. Have them lay with their hands and arms up, down, and to the sides and any other way they can lay.
Next use a jigsaw to cut out the drawing.
Using a belt sander, or hand sander although it will take more work and more time, sand down the cut edges.
Paint the plywood silhouette any way you want it. You can even put one of your child’s shirts on it if you want.
Now display it in your front yard, climbing your fence, in the garden, sitting in a tree, anywhere you want it.
This also makes a great gift for grandparents to add to their yards.
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