Mother’s Day Floral Handprints and Footprints

The perfect Mother’s Day keepsake to make for yourself or for a new mom in your life. This beautiful keepsake is one you will want to hang on your wall or display on your desk for years and years. **This post may contain affiliate links. A small commission may be earned.**

This keepsake is one of my favorites I have done over the years. This is actually my second year doing it and I still absolutely love it. Last year I did it in one 8 x 10 frame and this year I did it with 3 separate frames for each of my kids.

This keepsake is so perfect to do at spring time and so fitting for Mother’s Day, but you could honestly do it any time of the year. It makes such a perfect piece of decor to hang in your home.

With my first I never did many keepsakes and I’m sad I didn’t. In the moment they can feel overwhelming because who can really keep a baby’s foot or hand still when dealing with paint or salt dough. But, at the end of the day the little hand prints and foot prints are so precious to look back on.

Since I’m now a mom of three, I’ve learned a few things since then.

One, it’s okay if you don’t have those keepsakes from the early days – whenever you’re ready, those keepsakes will be just as valuable. I may not have my first daughters handprint from the newborn days, but her little hand at age 2, 3, and soon to be 4 is just as cute looking back on it.

Two (I didn’t learn this until my second), grab the little footprints and handprints once on a piece of cardstock and use them for multiple keepsakes/crafts! Worst case you just have some little footprints tucked away to remember years later.

Three, do the keepsakes when you have help around! I wish I would have done more crafts and messy things when the grandparents were in town. You have extra help for the messy and clean up, and they absolutely love being a part of the process.

Before we get to the keepsake itself – A couple of big reminders when you are working on this keepsake:

You need to use DRIED flowers.
If you take fresh flowers there is too much moisture and it will develop mold – which no one wants. If you want do this with flowers you collect yourself, be sure to have plenty of time for the flowers to dry when you are pressing them.

Grab the feet or hand prints on paper/cardstock.
Instead of trying to stamp your wiggly toddlers hand onto the glass, put it on a piece of paper or cardstock first. The nice thing about doing this is you can use one print over and over for different keepsakes and projects. Grab the footprints or handprints one day and then when you have time to do the whole keepsake you can!

** If you want to make these with tiny feet but don’t have tiny babies any more… You might have newborn footprints from the hospital, even if your kid is no longer a newborn! **

It doesn’t have to be newborn feet!
Make this keepsake with your young kids hands or feet. It is such a beautiful keepsake and you’ll love the sweet memory of their hands or feet.

Okay so lets get started! You can find everything I used linked here on Amazon.

What you’ll need:
– Dried and pressed flowers
– Floating Frame (8 x 10 I used, Hexagons I used)
– Ink Pad
– ModPodge
– Paint Brush (I love the sponge ones for this)
– Cricut (I love my Joy Xtra, you can see my full review here)
– Black vinyl

1. Get your kid’s hand prints or foot prints. Like I said above, I think the best way to do this is to use the ink pad and a piece of paper or cardstock. Then you don’t have the black underneath your flowers and you are able to use the prints for any other keepsakes you decide to do.
2. If your floating frame has an insert, use that piece for the prints and pressed flowers. You want the flowers to be sandwiched between the insert and the glass, or between the two pieces of glass depending on the frame you are using.
3. Before you place any flowers on your frame, cut out your child’s name and the year with your Circut. You’ll want to do this before the pressed flowers so your transfer tape doesn’t stick to the flowers and tear them up.
4. Now the fun part, the flowers! Place your cardstock underneath the insert and paint modpodge on top in the shape of the foot print or hand print you are using. Arrange your dried, pressed flowers on top of the modpodge.
5. Let this dry for at least 24 hours before putting the frame together.
6. Hang on your wall and admire your keepsake this spring or all year long.

If you loved doing this keepsake be sure to check out the Christmas Mistletoes and Valentine’s Floral Footprints as well. They are fun variants of this and perfect for holiday decor!

You’re doing a great job. xx Ciara